Spyware keeps evolving throughout the years. The more sophisticated anti spyware you have, the smarter spyware will be released to bypass it. Sometimes you’re only need to do a few clicks to get the spyware attached to your computer.

Spyware usually running on a stealth mode in your computer. It’s created by people who like to collect information about others. The stealth mode, usually a bit hard to track by common antivirus program. It could gather all information that you have in your computer without you being noticed of it, and then transmitted the information to its owner. That’s why you need a special anti spyware to take care of this problem. Spyware is not only harmful in stealing your information, but it’s also known to bugging the big companies when it’s get the important companies data.

Another disadvantage by having this spyware in your computer is that it can slow down your computer. That happens because they crawl your files and used up more spaces in your CPU. It could also run by itself every time you turn on your computer and it won’t stop working until you turn it off.

As you probably know, the danger of spyware is that it can steal all important information that you have in your computer. Starting from your personal information, your username and password for several accounts, even your credit card numbers and emails.

The very first thing you can do to avoid any spyware attack is by installing an anti spyware into your computer. Turn it on, and update it regularly. After that, you need to be careful in downloading suspicious files. Even if you already download it, make sure you scan it with your anti spyware and antivirus to make sure it’s saves before you open it. Last but not least, be careful when you clicking the popups. As you know, clicking something could trigger the spyware to be installed in your computer.

There are so many anti spyware program that you could find on the Internet. Some of them are freeware and others are shareware. Freeware means you don’t have to pay anything to use it, while shareware often gives you the trial version to try before you buy. If you don’t know where to start finding the anti spyware, just go to Google, and type “free antispyware program”. This will pulls out tons of results that you could choose.

In order to make your PC run smoothly, you need to take care of it, very carefully. Here are several tips that you could do at home to make your PC stop ruining your life and run smoothly:

1. Clean up your mailbox

If you use web based mailbox, you could skip this step. But, if you use an email program in your PC to handle your emails, consider cleaning it up regularly. Do the backup first of all emails, and then delete all of it. This will free up some space in your computer and make your computer work faster.

2. Installed antivirus program

Often, the main cause that makes your computers so slow is viruses, tons of them. You need good antivirus software installed in your computer to combat these harmful things and prevent it to penetrate your computer in the future. There are so many free antiviruses out there. Download and installed one of them as soon as possible. To avoid any problems between antiviruses, install just ONE of them. If you’re not comfortable with the protection level of some particular antivirus, close it, uninstalled it, and installed the new one.

3. Installed anti spyware program

This program will monitoring any illegal access from the outside and reminds you to kick it out from your systems. It’s the second best thing of software that you should install in your PC.

4. Do disk clean up regularly

It doesn’t have to be daily clean up, doing the weekly or monthly clean up is enough. You could find it by clicking Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Clean Up. Make sure you checked all boxes.

5. Delete cached files and cookies

If you’re an internet maniac, you’ll have tons of cached or cookies in your browsers. This will make your browsers load slower. Delete all of these, and your PC will run faster!

6. Empty your recycle bin

Basically, recycle bin is the place where you dump all of the things that you don’t need. It won’t hurt to just empty it. If you don’t know how to empty it right click the recycle bin in your desktop, and choose “Empty Recycle Bin”. You’re done.

7. Defrag computers

Start this by clicking Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter choose any drives that you wish to defrag, and your operating system will defrag it right away. It’s very useful to tidy up all of your files, and free up some spaces. If you never did this before, be patient, because it will take a while to finish.

Those are the tips that you could do in order to make your computer works smoothly and faster. Do update your antivirus and anti spyware regularly, defrag your computers and do some disks clean up often, and also don’t forget to clean up the mailbox, recycle bin, cached, and cookies.

What are needed to consider?

If you want to install 2 antiviruses in one or more computers, you may need to consider several things such as:

* Specifications of computers, make sure the CPU and Memory (RAM) enough. You can see the need or the recommended minimum of each antiviral.
* User can handle if both of them detect the virus.
* Match between the antivirus and the other one. If antivirus is not able to give a warning or do not fit with certain antivirus, it should not be forced.
* How will the give a higher priority.
* And probably also need to read the information / explanation of each antiviral.

What if both of antiviruses detect the same virus

When two or more antivirus are installed in the computer, it can and it is very possible that both antivirus detect the same virus. And sometimes this can cause problems, because if the virus detected is usually anti-virus will lock (file), so can not be accessed, run or even in the clear in the manual.

May occur when one antivirus will delete or quarantine the virus, it does not succeed / fail because the virus is in the lock (locked) access by other antivirus. If this happens, it can be one of the antiviruses must be switch off, and then the other delete to enter the virus to quarantine. Although it can not succeed, the other antivirus still can lock the file.

Do you still want to install two antiviruses?

If you still want to install two antivirus or more, but you worry computer will crash, error, conflict, or computer work will so slowly, this can be solved with activate only one antivirus. Mean?

Each menu usually have antivirus that work on the computer monitor at any time, such as: Active guard, Real-time guard, Proactive defense, Resident shield, Resident Protection, and so forth. To prevent conflicts and reduce the burden on the computer can be done with only the features for only one antivirus. While other anti-virus turned off (not activated), so only used to perform scan manually if needed only.

Or can also turn off the auto run feature or prevent automatic antivirus running windows, can be arranged through a program like Autoruns. There will be seen what the antivirus running when windows start (booting). But with the autorun just sometimes not enough, because the antivirus itself can activate the service through the windows (I checked the menu in the Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Services)

Experience is also important

This may also be made in consideration of the experience of others who had to install 2 antivirus in one or more computers. If you have friends who use two or more antivirus please provide feedback / comments. Whether there have been a problem or not, that can complement each other and become a science for us.

The botnet attacker was ruled botnets that was raised secretly to overwhelm access to these sites simultaneously. As a result, not less than 300 million users Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal can not access due to traffic that is too high even make the server down.

Twitter experienced down of service about three hours since the attack that occurred. During the three hours, about 35 million Twitter users can not send any messages. Facebook interference reported the same experience about 250 million users. While LiveJournal report 21 million users affected by this attack.

“This is really a very deadly attack,” said Stephen Tanase, senior analyst of Kaspersky as quoted from UsaToday. None of the big attacks happen again since February 2000. At that time, a boy aged 15 years who named himself Mafiaboy ordered his botnets to attack Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Etrade, ZDnet, and CNN.

With crippling Twitter and other social networking site, Attackers want to show how strong and terrible of botnet network in the world. Security analyst from the company’s antivirus AV, Roger Thompson estimates 40 percent of computers connected to the Internet are currently infected with botnet. However, users often do not realize the dangerous program that hide themselves and behave reasonably so difficult antivirus detected.