PC Health & Fitness

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Let's Examine Your PC's Health & Fitness.

These days, our PCs are constantly under attack from viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, email scams and hackers and all kind of malware from the Internet. If you don't install a complete Internet security and privacy software, then your PC might not be healthy eventhough it appears fit. Let's give your PC a full health check-up to make sure it is safe for you to use, and let's look at list of software for PC health maintenance.

FREE Tools to Keep Your PC Healthy, Fit and Secure:

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PC Health Maintenance Guide

Find Out Symtoms of an Unhealthy PC and What You Can Do to Fix It

Does your PC run slower than usual, PC screen display a lot of advertisement pop-ups, inbox receive junk emails, and PC behave strangely such as Internet connection to PC keeps disconnecting after a while, and crash often?

If your PC runs slower than usual or crashes quite often, it can be because of old age (i.e have installed and uninstalled a lot of software, saved files and removed files during the life of the PC) and it can also because of spyware infections and virus infections.

If your PC screen displays a lot of advertisement pop-ups, or your inbox receives junk emails, then most likely your PC is infected by spyware. Spyware can also be used to steal your sensitive financial information such as your internet banking account number and password, because this type of spyware that is known as keylogger records everything you typed on your computer and sends the information to the perpetrator.

If your PC behaves strangely such as Internet connection to your PC keeps disconnected after a while, then most likely your PC is infected by virus.

To check whether your PC is infected by spyware or virus and have them removed by specialised software and to learn more about online security and privacy, visit PC-Download.net site.

To learn more about how to maximize the performance of your PC and to check whether your PC needs to be rejuvenated, visit registry-repair-download.com site that specialises in keeping PC to run like new.

For more downloadable PC diagnostics software that can fix your Windows registry and hard drive errors, go to the PC Doctor page of PC-Download.net site.

TIPS ON HOW TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR PC:

Not all spam emails are caused by spyware infections, but some are caused by giving out your own email address when signing up for newsletters on the Net that offer freebies. Be cautious about sharing your email address and using the "remove me from this list" link that is usually appears at the bottom of the spam email page, because the link can be used to confirm that your email address is active and opens up to more spam. To be safe, do not click links in spam email and turn auto-preview off in your inbox. It is best to download an antispam software to protect your inbox against spam emails.
Reboot your computer in SAFE MODE, which loads very minimal programs and disables most device drivers that manage hardware such as printers and CD drivers before you run your antispyware software. By doing it this way, your antispyware software will have less interference from malicious software that infects your computer systems.

To reboot your computer in SAFE MODE, press F8 key repeatedly when you restart Windows as the computer screen begins to load and select "Boot in Safe Mode" from the menu of options.

Avoid opening a Website that offers only freebies if you're unsure whether the Website is legitimate, because your computer can get spyware infections just by opening a Website on the Net.
There are a couple of ways to help prevent PC from virus infection. It is important not to open email attachments that you are in doubt, since the only way PC can get infected by viruses is by loading or installing an infected file. Infected files are spread via email usually. It is best to install reputable Anti-Virus software into your PC to to protect your PC from all kind of viruses. If your anti-virus software can not remove the viruses found, then most likely the system restore files in your PC are infected. To allow your anti-virus software removes the viruses, uncheck the "System Restore" before running your anti-virus scan again. Remember to check back the "System Restore" after the scan is complete.

Do not allow any ActiveX Controls to run if you are not sure about the legitimacy of the ActiveX Controls, especially Web sites that repeatedly asking you to download and install ActiveX Controls before the Web page has fully loaded. Another thing that you should know about ActiveX Controls is you shouldn't need to download ActiveX controls in order to play an audio or video file. ActiveX Controls are used to enrich Web pages and require full access to your Windows operating system, which lead to PC security risks. To avoid the PC security risks inherent in ActiveX Controls, use a browser that does not rely on the technology such as Firefox Web browser and Opera Web browser.

Unplug the power cord of your PC rather than just switching off your PC to avoid electrical shocks destroying your PC's circuitry.

Run Windows Registry Cleaner Software and defragment your PC hard drive from time to time to ensure your PC runs at its optimum speed. Defragmenting stores together individual files that are split up in several places on hard drive, which leads to less time in accessing files stored in the hard drive. To defragment, go to MY COMPUTER and right-click on the hard drive and select PROPERTIES and click the TOOLS tab and then click DEFRAGMENT NOW.

Beware of some free third party toolbars since some of them are adware that slow down the performance your PC and invade your privacy since it tracks your internet activities for the purpose of marketing plan. To remove this adware toolbar, you need to run anti-spyware software.

To prevent hackers from accessing your PC while online, you can either install a reputable Firewall Software into your PC or add a piece of hardware that is called Router between your PC and modem.

Be careful whenever an e-card asks you to download viewer or install software for you to read the e-card, because the e-card might carry viruses, spyware and other malware that can harm your computer.

To prevent unnecessary slow boot-up of your computer, remove programs that you don't need at startup by running the Microsoft Configuration utility where you can uncheck any programs that do not need to load into computer memory when you boot-up your computer.