Comodo Intrnet Security
An absolutely free firewall/diffender/sandbox/antivirus (can use whatever needed) package that had received many awards.
It's is a little pro (can adjust almost everything) but it is very reliable. A main reason that I like firewalls is because you know which program is trying to connect to the internet and with a little more research/knowledge you can know why too...(in general I block most of those types of request, except from very specific things)
A bad experience that I had with firewalls is that they often do not work along with antivirus software from other firms. So for example don't use Comodo and Antivir. In general I would suggest using security software from one firm.
Also Comodo offers other free useful software and SSL encryption for webpages. They still offer a 6month free 128 SSL certificate for sites/businesses.
www.comodo.com
SuperAntispyware and Mbam (Malwarebytes)
Both very nice and free (the free version does the job->there is a paid version too) pieces of software for trojan, malware, cookies, search and elimination.
Click and Clean for Chrome and Firefox.
A very nice add-on that cleans browsing history, cookies, cache, Flash objects, silverlight cookies, etc...You can set it up to clean anything of the above you want when browser closes (that's my preference).
They recently added a malware search tool.
By the way, long time ago I abandoned Internet explorer as an actual browser, but unfortunately I have to make sure all our sites are working fine on the Internet explorer. It seems that IE 9 is a great upgrade and hopefully it will make the web-designer's life easier (along with the html5.0 agreement).
Tune Up utilities
A relatively cheap piece of software that does what it says... It has many useful tools to improve performance and customize the windows environment. Most important, it has a great registry cleaner.
I've used it for many years to repair computers with software issues.
In general registry cleaners might damage some software that has unrecognizable functions (by the cleaner) on the registry. But if you have a really bad registry the system is dead.. so one good thing to do is to run registry maintenance accept all recommendations and then uninstall/ reinstall any software that might not run properly afterwards.
Sometimes to reinstall windows is better, sometimes its too much work if you can save the system with malware removal tools, antivirus, registry cleaners and tune-up programs.
An absolutely free firewall/diffender/sandbox/antivirus (can use whatever needed) package that had received many awards.
It's is a little pro (can adjust almost everything) but it is very reliable. A main reason that I like firewalls is because you know which program is trying to connect to the internet and with a little more research/knowledge you can know why too...(in general I block most of those types of request, except from very specific things)
A bad experience that I had with firewalls is that they often do not work along with antivirus software from other firms. So for example don't use Comodo and Antivir. In general I would suggest using security software from one firm.
Also Comodo offers other free useful software and SSL encryption for webpages. They still offer a 6month free 128 SSL certificate for sites/businesses.
www.comodo.com
SuperAntispyware and Mbam (Malwarebytes)
Both very nice and free (the free version does the job->there is a paid version too) pieces of software for trojan, malware, cookies, search and elimination.
Click and Clean for Chrome and Firefox.
A very nice add-on that cleans browsing history, cookies, cache, Flash objects, silverlight cookies, etc...You can set it up to clean anything of the above you want when browser closes (that's my preference).
They recently added a malware search tool.
By the way, long time ago I abandoned Internet explorer as an actual browser, but unfortunately I have to make sure all our sites are working fine on the Internet explorer. It seems that IE 9 is a great upgrade and hopefully it will make the web-designer's life easier (along with the html5.0 agreement).
Tune Up utilities
A relatively cheap piece of software that does what it says... It has many useful tools to improve performance and customize the windows environment. Most important, it has a great registry cleaner.
I've used it for many years to repair computers with software issues.
In general registry cleaners might damage some software that has unrecognizable functions (by the cleaner) on the registry. But if you have a really bad registry the system is dead.. so one good thing to do is to run registry maintenance accept all recommendations and then uninstall/ reinstall any software that might not run properly afterwards.
Sometimes to reinstall windows is better, sometimes its too much work if you can save the system with malware removal tools, antivirus, registry cleaners and tune-up programs.
