Best Ways to Protect Yourself from Spyware
Worried about spyware? Follow these five tips to keep yourself protected!
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Regularly run an up-to-date anti-badware app with a strong heuristics scanner. A heuristics scanner will catch badware based on its behavior (versus just quarantining software based on a dated database of threats).... read full review
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Update your software, especially if you’re using Windows -- badware lives to exploit unpatched PCs running Windows. That’s how headline-making worm Conficker got around....
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Would you buy a Birkin bag from an alley? Don’t trust software downloads from unofficial sites; always do downloads from legit sites to make sure they’re authentic....
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Even if you’re visiting DoNotTellMyGirlfriendImHere.com, the only programs you need to watch videos online are Java, Flash, RealPlayer, and Quicktime. Raise an eyebrow at any site that prompts you to install software to view Rihanna naked... errrr breaking political n...
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File-sharing software has worries outside legal issues like it’s 1999: Trojans love to spread through P2P networks. Anything you download under 1MB should be deleted, as it’s likely a Trojan....
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