Expensive software often packed up with more features, created by famous companies, and won several awards. While the cheap software is not that fortunate. However, this condition is not totally right. Why? Because the cheap software usually only included the most essential features for the users and easy navigation.

Cheap software often beats down the expensive one because it solely focusing on finding the solution of one problem rather than finding more solutions to more problems. Other benefits of cheap software are the cheapness, straight forward operative, and more often they do not have very ‘impressive’ design. You could get what you want without make yourself broke. Even if the expensive software might have more features, but if you don’t need any of it but the essential ones, the rest of the money that you’ve will bring you no good.

Expensive software often created with profit-oriented in mind. The developers usually spend more time and money to research the latest technology or adding more features just to make the software looks better than other competitors. While this is not wrong, it could be troublesome. Why? Because the developer could dumped in any features which is not really essential and insult the users’ intelligence. They think because more features are cramped in it, the price will be higher, and more people will buy it.

This is not wrong though. However, if the software lacks of customer supports and easy navigation, the customers won’t hesitates to do the chargeback.

If you need specific software that you know it’s cheap but not available anywhere, you could use the service of freelance developer. He could help you to create custom-designed software that matches your needs without paying him a very generous amount. The feature of software that you want to made probably already included in the expensive software that you’ve ever saw before. But who wants to pay full price if you’re only want a piece of it?

This is where the cheap software comes. Cheap software is not only software that created with a lower price, but it also could mean the software that YOU created with a lower price (with help of the developer, of course). This piece of software probably not the best software in the world, but if it could solve your problems faster, easier, and cheaper from any expensive software in the market, will you complain?

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.

You could remove the traces that you do during your surfing time right from your browser. Under normal condition, your browser will store any information about your activities like browsing history, username and password, cookies, file cache, even information from the form that you filled up. This is the most common things that you usually failed to pay attention because these types of information will reveal what you just done before.

Some of these tracking functions are designed to make your browsing time much faster and comfortable, but it didn’t come without any costs. But, before you learn how to erase these online activities traces, let’s take a look by what each of this information will reveal.

1. Cache – Makes your browsing faster because it stores all information about the website that you just visited and make a copy of that website. So, you don’t have to wait for so long just to access the pages that you’ve been opened before.
2. History – You could stay this is the URL storage. Every URL that you input into your browser will be stored in history to make you browse the website faster without typing the full URL.
3. Saved information form – Remember any form that you fill up lately? Well, this part definitely stores all of the information that you input previously.

To erase these traces form your computer, you do these steps:

1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser
2. Select Tools -> Options from the toolbar
3. Choose Privacy on the left menu
4. Clear these information; History, Saved form information, Download manager history, Cache.
5. Done.

You probably want to clear the cookies too, but before you does that consider whether you’re still need the information such as username and password for several accounts that you have online. If you do, skip it. It’s because cookies often store the information like username and password so your browser will remember it the next time you visit those particular sites.

When you decide to go online, you can’t ignore the possibility that some information about yourself could be accessible by other person. So, do the steps above to protect your identity online before someone stole it.

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.

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.

One way to avoid the occurrence of piercing administrator account is to disable it. So, if there are desperate to try to login with administrator user name, then will appear warning “Your account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator. “And the login will not run.

If the fraudulent user has an account on the computer to log in with the access rights does not administrator and then use the Run as facilities … I was also sure to fail. Every effort to get access as administrators will appears warning unable to logon: logon failure: account currently disabled.

Well, for those who want to disable the administrator account in Windows, follow these steps:
1. Click [Start]> [Control Panel]> [System and Maintenance]> [Administrative Tools]> [Local Security Policy].
2. When the Local Security Policy window has opened, go to Security Settings-Local Policies-Security Options.
3. After that, look for policy Accounts: Administrator account status.
4. Double-click the policy and then select Disabled.
5. Then close the box dialog by clicking the [OK] and close the Local Security Policy.

If you have tricks in the run up correctly, the account administrator will not be accessible again. Please note, before the turn off the administrator account; make sure you have created at least one account with another user name that has administrator rights.