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.

Yes, you’re still careful in opening an email attachment that you don’t know or visiting some dangerous websites. But, with the knowledge of having antivirus and anti spyware in your back, you could minimize the risk of any virus or spyware attack.

There is one thing you need to know in order to do a full PC maintenance, it’s a log file. Log file is a result that usually created every time your antivirus or anti spyware scanning your PC. It contains many useful information about the current condition of your PC. If you have a network connection for several PCs, learning about log files is very important.

What can you do by the way with these log files? You could track the current condition of your PC and track the progress. Here are several things that you should track down with you log files:

1. Antivirus and anti spyware

Each of this program will gives you a complete log file every time they finished their scans. You could find out about your PC condition starting from the first time you run the antivirus or anti spyware scan program.

2. Performance

If you have a log files that specifically created to track down every PC performance in your network, you could use it to figure out whether performance of each computer increase or decrease. You could also tracking down the causes by comparing the log files that you have before with the latest one. It could also help you to detect whether any malware attach to your PCs and figure out how you can get rid of it.

3. IP address

If you have several problems that start attacking several PCs in your network, you could use the IP address to located the source of problems and give the solutions to it. You could track it down with the log files than checking each PC one by one.

4. Disk Space

You could increase the effectiveness of your disk defragmenter activities by having at least 20% free disk space available. How do you know this? From your log files, of course. Having this information at hand will help you to get the right decision whether you need another hard drives or not.

Doing PC maintenance with antivirus and anti spyware is not enough. You need to be proactive in tracking the progress of your PC. You need to know what makes your PC run faster or what things that make it too slow. Use your log files to give you some clues about what you should do next. Doing this regularly, and you’ll maintain a great condition for your PC.

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.