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2010/04/30

Secure Your Computer Using Only Free Tools

Do you want virus protection and Internet protection and secure email and secure files all with free tools? Then read this article, it will present you with everything you need to download and use in order to make it happen.

Let’s start with the viruses, the best anti virus today is the Avast. Their new user interface and their new engine are able to catch almost every thing that should not be living in your computer. Viruses can destroy information and make an hard disk unusable again. Install it, and make sure you have daily internet connection to let the anti virus update itself.Once it’s done let’s secure your email. By default no free email or paid email has encryption activated and I doubt they really care about email security. Most email service care only about billing and advertising revenue. Security is optional. You can install on Thunderbird and Outlook the Winzip companion which will compress and secure life. It’s the best security step you ca take for email security. As long as the password is safe, so are your files.Stopping bad people from connecting to your computer is not hard these days, all you need is a good browser and a good Firewall. Internet Explorer is safe an Windows Firewall is safe, but not for a long time. After some time using the computer the attack might be successful and you do no even notice it. Install Comodo Firewall and Google Chrome to have a truly secured system.

Finally use a good password generator to make a password for your computer log on screen. You should be able to remember this password. Write it own dozens of times then destroy that paper or write it hundreds of times in Wordpad then do not save the file. Your computer is now safer...Let's browsing again!