[TIPS] How to stay malware free!

How to stay malware free!

Hi, 

I'm writing this to hopefully keep you virus, spyware, adware, and malware free. This manual will hopefully educate you on malware, help prevent it and help remove it. 


So what's this 'malware' then?

So, what is 'Malware'? Malware is the name given to viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers and all the nasty things you want to avoid when computing. Malware is a common issue with computers (especially Windows, lesser on Linux and Mac) because there's a wide variety of ways you can get infected by malware.



Symptoms of infections:

1. Redirects - a popular symptom is redirects, let's say you go to Google and it redirect you to some Russian website, you're most likely infected with a trojan so it's time to scan with your Anti virus, then your Anti malware.
2. Slow computer - Computer abnormally slow? You could be infected, run a scan.
3. Icons on desktop, you didn't put there - most likely an infection, scan!
4. Popups - I don't just mean the odd one, I mean quite a lot. If so, it's time to get scanning



Tips

1. Always keep your Antivirus and Antimalware up to date, it's useless if you don't.
2. Run a scan once in a while (don't go overkill and scan daily, it's just wasting time and energy)
3. Don't run more than one real time Antivirus together.
4. Don't visit shady serial websites, or porn sites that you don't trust.
5. Always run an Antivirus, in the event of a virus and you don't have one you will really wish you'd had one (as I found out a while back)
6. Use common sense while computing.