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Are You Sure You Are Out Of Malware?
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By Hamid Reza Soroush Zand
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There are symptoms that can help us greatly cure our PCs beforeit's too late. By being too late I mean the time you learn to beinfected and unfortunately you may have lost something includingbut not limited to, your credit card numbers revealed tostrangers, your email password stolen, your stable operatingsystem deformed, etc.
Nowadays especially Windows XP users prefer to use the built inhibernate feature of their Windows and less and less theyrestart their PCs everyday.
You might know that whenever a Trojan, malware, adware, virusand other newly created online or offline threats enter andresides in your computer, a restarting of your machine givesthese new guests a golden opportunity, some of them multiply,others simply hide inside other files like photos or txt filesand others actively gain more power by being able to access somesystem resources they like.
So, first note, whenever you visit a suspicious website, ordownload something especially a file from unknown sources likep2p programs or from unverified Urls, scan the files downloadedand then scan your computer before hibernating or turning off.
If after restarting your computer or coming out of hibernationyou are encountered by an error message that you didn't seebefore downloading the specified file, this might, be a sign ofan intruder.
Read the error message exactly, if it asks you go online andvisit a website, it strongly can be an adware or spywarecommanding your internet connections to allow it use your onlineresources, or complete downloading some other malwares onto yourcomputer.
In some cases if you see some errors that are related to yourVGA status, for example Windows warns that your color settingsare too low or something like that, it's better to scan your PCwith your several updated anti-virus and anti-spyware programsand if the case persists, just uninstall your VGA software andreinstall.
Make sure that whenever being online, your pop up blocker isactive, cause many adwares and spywares are downloaded throughpop up windows. Also pay very attention to messages asking youturn off your firewall, it's a proven trick that some sitesexporting malwares, usually offer free softwares and excitingprograms and when you begin downloading an error message appearson your screen that in order to download or continue downloadingof this software, please turn off your firewall, Never downloadsuch things and Never turn off your firewalls in such cases.
Spam emails too are among the new evolved methods of sendingmalware to people through unrealistic messages, for example youreceive emails that your bank account is in danger and your bankasks you change your account password.
In such cases, if you use mail clients like Outlook, just rightclick on the email message and read about the senders real emailaddress, in fact you very well know what email address belongsto your bank. These emails usually come from free online emailaddresses.
Don't forget to make a phone call to you bank and inspect ifsuch action is needed or not.
Nowadays, quite unlike the past some keyloggers and malwares donot need to reside inside an attached email message, insteadthey hide inside html and picture emails and load onto yourcomputer through mere reading, it's a trusted word that when youreceive an email from an unknown source with a strange titlelike: I Love you or You have won the jackpot, delete it unread.
In some cases when you scan your computer and your anti-spywareprograms find some malwares, your scanner wants you to restartyour PC, so that the cleaning take effect, if this is true aboutyou, turn off and rescan after restarting to see if the Trojanhas been successfully cleaned.
The two major internet browsers Internet Explorer and MozillaFirefox are both familiar names to millions of online browsersand there is not yet any exact evidence as to which one is saferagainst online threats but you can test them, download and usethem updated and then browse with each one for a while and afterusing each one, just scan your PC, after a short while you willlearn that which one is right for you.
But a note must be mentioned here, neither of these two browserscan make you immune from online threats if used by themselves,so be equipped with several anti-virus and anti-spywareprograms, scan everyday and after suspicious behaviors.
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