Spyware is a software that contains dangerous featured to take control of your computer system and gather personal information without your knowledge. Spyware can slow down your computer activity. It is generally used by hacker and cracker to mislead user's activity on their computer or PC. Therefore, to handle Spyware challenges we discuss following easy 8 tips:
1. Install decent antivirus
Many computer users believe in free antivirus applications, but it provider's sufficient protection that protects a computer from virus or spyware infection. However, such free antivirus application typically does not provide decent protection from the malware or list of threats
2. Keep current anti-malware applications
Antivirus and anti-spyware software require regular updates. Because without these critical updates, Antivirus programs can't able to protect your PC or computer from the latest version of threats and malware. All computer user use current antivirus software to continue earning protection against latest virus and malware.
3. Perform daily scans
Mostly, Computer virus and spyware threats breakout your system's activity and infect them. The number of potential new threats make itself inevitable that generally inventive infections will outsmart security software.
So, daily scans of a computer or system is another layer of protection. These daily scans can be capable of detecting, isolating, and removing infections from your device.
4. Install real-time anti-spyware protection
Generally, computer users falsely believe that a single antivirus software provides sufficient or protection and safeguards from adware and spyware. But it can't be decent protection against spyware and adware etc.
Free anti-spyware programs don't provide real-time protection against adware, Trojan, and other spyware infections. Typically you can use professional (or fully paid and licensed) anti-spyware software to prevent infections and fully remove those infections already present.
5. Remove temporary files
These are typically found on the C drive: a \Users\Username\App Data\Local\Temp folder within Windows Vista. You must delete everything within the temporary folders. Many threats or virus hide there and these are regenerate upon system startup.
6. Do not click on email links or attachments
Mostly, the clicking of unknown email link or attachment can, corrupt Windows, infect other machines, and destroy critical data within minutes.
Users should never click on those email attachments if you have any doubt about them and if you want to click on it then, you must scan at least one before opening them.
7. Use a hardware-based firewall
The reliable firewall provides protection for your computers against a wide variety of exploits, malicious network traffic, viruses, worms, malware and other vulnerabilities. Typically, the software-based firewall included with Windows is not sufficient to protect systems from the attacks affecting all Internet-connected systems. For this reason, all computer or system connected to the Internet should be secured behind a capable hardware-based firewall.
8. Deploy DNS protection
Users can protect themselves from the variety of viruses or threats by changing the way their computers process DNS services. And system professional recommended you to the implementation of the Switch, OpenDNS which offers free DNS service for the protection user's computer against common virus, spyware etc.