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5 Free Things You Can Do To Protect Your Computer

 
5 Free Things You Can Do To
Protect Your Computer
1. Install Windows Defender
Microsoft Windows Defender helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance,
and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. I have been using it my
laptop and computers at home and it works very well.
Here is the link to the Windows Defender Homepage and from there you can download it:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
 
2. Install a Personal Firewall
A personal firewall is software installed on an end-user's PC which controls communications to
and from the user's PC, permitting or denying communications based on a security policy. One
such personal firewall is ZoneAlarm. ZoneAlarm is designed to protect your PC from hackers.
ZoneAlarm is free for individual and not-for-profit charitable entity use (excluding governmental
entities and educational institutions).
Find out more about ZoneAlarm: http://www.zonelabs.com
 
3. Use Firefox Instead of Internet Explorer
Switch web browsers from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer is very closely
integrated with your Windows operating system. This means that if you use Internet Explorer to
view a website that contains malicious (nasty) code there is a strong possibility of that code
"getting into" your Windows operating system and ... more

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