Programs to increase the security level while you are surfing the internet :

It is really common to suffer some attacks of different kinds of virus when you use the famous internet explorer. Between the most famous viruses we can find the Trojans, spam and the well-known spywares which are the commonest problem of any computer. The spyware is also known as the spy program due the objective of these programs is to intercept all the movements of a specific victim to steal the information and later this will be sent to the cyber-pirate or also known as hacker.

The spyware is the commonest virus on the internet due it cannot be detected by the user neither the antivirus.
These kinds of programs get infiltrated at the time when you visit any suspicious website. Mostly they are stored as a cookie, JavaScript, ActiveX, which can be downloaded by the user indirectly.

They also can be stored in our operational system when we download a free program from the internet, those kinds of viruses are known as freeware due they got linked along with the program, and occasionally they can contain some kind of Trojan or another kind of virus like the spyware.

Those viruses can alter the performance of the system by blocking some websites and programs until they overload the work administrator. Besides that, your internet explorer will respond really slowly, this one can be count as a symptom of this virus.

Next we will mention of a great number of programs which will help you to improve the performance of your antivirus, actually these programs will help you to fight against the viruses called spyware:

Spybot search & destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) : Is one of the most used antiviruses is the , which has a great number of tools to help the regular antivirus to develop a better performance. One of the advantages of this program is the automatic actualization every day. It can eliminate malware, adware, hijackers between other kinds of viruses.

Besides it counts with a process called Tea Timer which helps to avoid the modifying of the register system. It is also important to mention that this kind of program is distributed freely on the internet.

The Super Antispyware (http://www.superantispyware.com) : This one posses a multi-dimensional format in it. It can detect quickly the Trojans, dialers, worms, adware between other, after complete the detection process the program will eliminate the virus automatically.

The spyware Blaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com) : Is another program commonly used to block the unwanted downloads like Active X and other suspicious programs wandering through internet and waiting for the chance to infect an innocent computer. Besides it block the downloading of any automatic cookie found while you use the internet explorer.

The hijackThis (http://www.trendsecure.com) : It has a great advantage; this program can offer a complete report about all of the actions and modifications developed without your authorization.

Besides the programs mentioned before, there is also the Malware bytes, the Anti-malware, Ad-Aware 2008 free and the Spy Sweeper 5. Another way to battle the spyware is the online antivirus, for example the Kaspersky, Panda Active Scan 2.0, ESET Nod32 Online Scanner, Bit defender, between others. To use those programs you must deactivate the system restorer, after that it is recommendable to start the system on safe mode, just in case. After analyzing all of the programs, you can clean each one of the documents and modified files with the CCleaner.

The commonest option to prevent the attacks of a spyware may be when you activate the Firewall of the operational system, this software works as a blocker between the system and the internet. This uses some kind of filter which can process the information according to the security level offered by the current explorer.

Actually these days, the newest way to commit a fraud or a cyber-robbery can be done with the called “Phishing” which works with modified HTML codes offering to the users; or victims in this special case, the total look of a safe website. For that reason it is recommendable to forget about those advertisings which ask you for your secret password or your private data because they are commonly used to achieve suspicious objectives.

There are many websites with a really high security level due they have a safe protocol, a clear example may be the websites of a count in a bank, the counts of an e-mail, or some big stores which posses a URL of the kind “https://” instead of “http://”.

How to create security copies with freeware software on windows 7 ? :

The most of the people use the computer to develop some really important works. For that reason, to prevent the loss of our information, we must make some security copies or also known as backups. Next we will make mention of the best 5 free programs to make security copies on windows 7 the easiest and fastest way:

Amro Mousa´s AM Backup : Is an excellent program which allows to the user make security copies of the system. Besides it organizes systematically the copied files by extension thanks to its tools which offer us a great number of file to duplicate. Amro Mousa´s AM Backup is compatible with windows 7 and it can perform the recording to CD and DVD, likewise it can create desks with the extensions .zip and .rar due it admits filters and specifications to deny any unwished file.

Cobian Backup : It is another program to make security copies. This tool has a very easy usage but at the same time it is really powerful. It can change the configuration to make security copies at application or Windows 7 service level. Cobian Backup supports many extensions files of compression; it also executes it on second plane so this will not disturb the normal process of the user or the stability of the system. Between its utilities we can find a help support unit in many languages, a file explorer and a general register or history.

Hinx Backup Easy : It is a tool handled by eyelashes, this generates a great simplicity at the moment when you are going to create security copies of the system. With this program you can choose security copies between local folders or random directories. It presents a nice interface for the user, where the execution of the work with a timer and a complete directory of the system have been optimized. Hinx Backup Easy is distributed freely on the internet and it also can be recorded on CD and DVD.

Ventis ProBackup : It is a great option to create backups of our most important documents. The security copies are executed periodically on a second plane, so that way the saving of the system data will be sure. The saved information by Ventis ProBackup can be recovered in case the user wants to; this execution is developed really fast and simple. The security copies can be created from hard disks, pen drivers, external disks and local networks.

Idle Backup : This one is a great application for the operational system Windows 7, because this allows us to make backup in silence, quietly. This program executes its works on a second plane to create security copies of the system. The only thing the user must do is to specify the destiny of the carpet desired which can be controlled from an external USB memory, a hard disk and even from a network disk. Generally the Idle Backup gets executed while the system is not being used; this option can be activated or deactivated on the option list the program possesses. It is important to mention that the security copies are created from the last security copy saved previuously.

What precautions should be taken to use the Internet ?

However, we must be careful when we use the Internet, because it always runs the risk that a hacker wants to infiltrate in our system to alter the private documents that are stored on the hard disk. That is why we will cite below some precautions to be taken into account to avoid running the risk that our data is altered or removed.

To use the Internet we should take a lot of precautions, because the computer can be attacked by a virus or spyware, to prevent such an act we should install a good antivirus program on our computers, so that way it can locate immediately any suspicious activity that may be executed when we use the Internet. It also must be installed an antispyware to complement the antivirus, which will help to control the adware and malicious files that are spread on the Internet.

When you are going to to seek any information, you must be very careful with advertising messages, as these situations can redirect us to sites of dubious origin. Closing those windows or omitting them would be best to not be swayed by advertising and messages displayed on web pages.

There are many browsers today to help solve this type of problem; an example is the Mozilla Firefox and Google chrome, which are browsers that show the websites with the least possible publicity, so the user can view a site clean and free of junk mail. It is also recommended removing temporary files and cookies stored by your regular browser, because the spyware often stay in that direction.

When you are about to enter your password on a website, you absolutely must be very careful, as there are sites cloned on purpose to steal a lot of passwords from naive and distracted users. The pages that have at the beginning of the URL in their web address https: / / are actually the most reliable ones for online transactions and any kind of purchases.

When you really want to enter your personal email, you must enter the username and password in a discreet way and it must be done in a web site to ensure safety, such as Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, among others. We absolutely recommend changing your passwords every two months at least; this, believe it or not, will help to increase the security of your e-mail.

Also you should avoid entering links which was sent as messages to email, because many times these blogs we are redirected to dangerous sites for the purpose of obtaining our private information, the vast majority of these strange messages reach the inbox under the title too striking, this is why they must be removed immediately if you do not know the exact origin of the message.

Finally we recommend following all the guidelines above, so that way you can use the internet without being afraid of some virus or hacker.

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What are the best computer maintenance programs ?

This program can solve any problem found in the system. It has a very user-friendly interface, where you can customize the level of maintenance to be executed on your computer. Also thanks to Tune Up, you can enable options that the system cannot change manually. You can also delete files that are not in use and cleaning the Windows registry.

Glary Utilities offers great options to optimize your computer quickly, safely and easily. This software is distributed free and it is a great tool to maintain the smooth functioning of the computer. You can delete temporary files and system browser, correct and repair installments. Glary Utilities operates silently decoding system files, so that way it can be analyzed in a more effective way all the files found in the system.

Win Utilities Professional Edition software counts with a great reputation. This great tool will help maintain adequate system performance. It contains utilities to clean the system registry, temporary files on the disk, and internet browser history. In addition to this program it can perform various local disk defragmentations that are installed on your computer. To remove the fragmented files you have the option for safe disposal. It has a cleaner start to monitor the proper implementation of programs that load when Windows starts.

Argente Registry Cleaner is another program that will allow us to optimize the system. This software will maintain the proper functioning of the computer. It aims to repair, fix and clean any registry damage is located on your computer and after that it can scan your computer. It works quickly because it only looks for invalid entries in the system log, then to locate them provide a list of errors in the system, so the user will have an overview of the records that need to be repaired, cleaned or eliminated.

Wise Registry Cleaner Pro is a utility that help you analyze the system registry thoroughly. Thanks to their great tools, this program will display an overview of the records that are damaged in the system. It also identifies and cleans up any system error log. It recognizes the records clearly prove to be dangerous to remove, and those which are safe to delete.

For security purposes, Wise Registry Cleaner previously made backup of the registry, so that way the system can be restored in the event that causes any problem with the program. Moreover, the record scan engine is complete, safe and fast.

Best tips to create a good and safe key password :

The key passwords were created to keep the privacy of the users, and also they are the only kind of hey to be sure about the identity of the people around the world. 

These passwords can be use in the e-mail, a bank count, online games, forums, social nets or any kind of system with private information. Next I will give some recommendations that you can follow if you want to create a key password with a high security level:

- To keep a good key password, it has to be composed by letters, numbers and signs, because the combination of these can reach a great variety of characters and it can be really hard to be found out by the well-known hackers. If you wrote many letters, numbers or signs in your password then it will be really difficult to hack out. A real good example may be those passwords with 15 characters, which are safer than those composed by 9 characters, the characters may be the next ones:

Some Capital and regular letters (A, B ,C, D, E, …, X, Y, Z) or (a, b, c, d, e, …, x, y, z)
Some numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Some symbols: ¿ ‘ + ´} – . , ! “ # $ % & / ( ) = ? ¡ *´¨ ] [ _ : ; – * / + ´¿ } ¡ | °

- It is really usual to forget about the password if you have a rare one. For that reason it is recommendable to use some characters which will help you to remember it easily. For example if you write the sentence “that fish has eggs and an excited face”, then the key password can be built by the characters “t F h E a A e F” or maybe a symbol puzzle like “>3///(._.)”. Some other people like to create their key password with the number of the neighbor’s car or even with some equations like “d=vxt”, “a+a=2a”, “PBI=c+g+e+i+x-m”. Creating a key password is really easy depending on the security level you want.

- Depending on the server where you are going to create a new count, there is a programmer that allows you to recognize the security level of your key password. For example the Hotmail server has this system included. This system will be showing to the new user the security level form the lowest until the highest while the user is still writing the new key password. If you write only letters, then the programmer will show a low level, if change it between numbers and capital letters then it will be a medium level but if you write a key password using all of the capital and regular letters, number and other symbols, then the level will improve to a high security level according with the programmer.

- On the internet, there are many programs that can save all the letters and the information we wrote down on the keyboard so they can steal our passwords, mostly these programs are installed on the public internet rooms or maybe on the cyber-coffees. A weak point of these programs may be that they store everything we write on the password section, as long as we write it with the keyboard, for that reason you have to be careful when you are going to write down all of your personal information on the servers. If your user’s count is “quepro” we can write it backwards and later we can fix it with the mouse.

In the case of the messenger or maybe other servers, the key password cannot be modified inside the password section so it will be completely necessary to use the block of notes to modify the key password with the mouse. For the password you can develop the same operation, also you can write down a fake key password to confuse the hacker.

- Finally, it is recommendable to change your key password once in a while, and not creating a password with information easy to find out like phone numbers or the birth date of someone close to you. Also you have to be careful when you enter to any computer and look around for some strange people by your side.

After you had access to the count on the internet you can turn off or re-start the computer, even you can erase the saved pages so that way you can make sure there were no pages stealing your information. Lately, the message by e-mail is really common, this message will ask for your key password to have access to the whole message, if it is possible you must eliminate this kind of messages and do not ever write down your personal information. There are websites with URL like “https://…” these are very safe due its high security level.

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Which are the best antivirus programs for Windows 7 ? :

These last days, the Windows Company has released to the current market its latest version for the operational systems, “Windows 7”, which offers a better stability than previous versions. The Windows 7 counts with an integrated by default Windows Defender which allows analyzing the system to find any kind of virus in it; however this program is not efficient at all when the virus have to be eradicated completely form the system. For that reason on this essay we will make mention of the best antivirus programs for the Windows 7.

Kaspersky antivirus : This antivirus is considered as the best of it category until now. It is totally compatible with Windows 7, and it protects the computer from any kind of virus, spywares, hackers and spam. It really offers a total protection to the system. Besides it has been created to be executed with corporative plans, because it counts with correct implementation and administration, so it offers a really high protection when the user needs to use the data transference process through internet.
(http://www.kaspersky.com/)

Webroot antivirus : This is an antivirus which has been created to go according with the necessities of the operational system Windows 7. It is really easy to handle because it counts with a good and friendly interface. It includes complete protection and antispyware to eliminate any kind virus attack.
(http://www.webroot.com/)

McAfee antivirus : This antivirus offers great benefits to the system, because ii helps to eliminate all the kinds of viruses already in the operational system. It counts with different version for companies and homes. McAfee is really focused on the stability and the security of its clients, for that reason this company is always innovating and offering actualizations for the data base of its products.
(http://www.mcafee.com/)

Panda antivirus : The compatibility offered by this antivirus with the windows 7 is totally amazing, because it is adjusted according with the new modifications of Windows 7 to perform the virus, spyware and hackers elimination process from the computer successfully. It is a perfect antivirus if you want to keep the security of your computer at a really high security level. Besides it offers a firewall so it can help to optimize the security level already offered by default.
(http://www.pandasecurity.com/)

Norton antivirus : It is one of the newest antivirus for the Windows 7, because it not just eliminate the virus and computer bad agents but it can block spywares and suspicious networks. Between its other kinds of services we can surely find the free technical support, and the optimization of the computer. This is thanks to Norton can analyze the system to solve automatically the damage which is affecting the stability of the entire system.
(http://antivirus.norton.com/)

AVG antivirus : This is an antivirus which offers a complete protection to your computer. It includes antispyware, protection against phishing, firewall and advanced protection anti- Root kit. It is totally compatible with windows 7 and it also counts with good tools which help to keep high the security level of the entire system.
(http://www.avg.com/)

ESET Smart Security antivirus : Actually this is one of the best antivirus for the operational system Windows 7, because it offers great actualizations if we talk about virus information and data. It offers a great stability when the system is searching for any kind of virus. It offers protection against many kinds of attacks coming from spywares, malwares, virus, Trojans, worms, rootkits, bugs key loggers between others. It includes an improved firewall which can help to block suspicious networks. Likewise it has an anti-spam to avoid suspicious attacks coming from the messages in the e-mail box.
(http://www.avg.com/)

Trendmicro antivirus : This modern antivirus which is totally compatible with Windows 7, helps to eliminate any kind of virus. Its actualizations can be executed each day of the week to prevent possible attacks coming from new kinds of virus and other things. It counts with anti-spam, firewall and anti-spyware to really increase the security level in the computer.
(http://us.trendmicro.com/)

What are the strongest viruses and which are their affects ? :

Have you as many other people ever wondered when we could explore the internet without thinking about some virus attacking our computers and systems? Sadly, this ideal objective is not possible because there will always be any virus not just attacking but damaging our computers and trying to enter through the network to the PC. You will always be exposed to any attack even if you count with the best antivirus. The hackers are creating more and more of these new bad programs and they are stronger, faster and absolutely more annoying than the other ones. Actually these are battling with the new and more sophisticated antivirus.

The technology has provoked the competency movement, better attacks in one hand and by the other one some improves, actualizations etc.

The real objective is avoiding the damage to the computer; reduce the possibility of any virus entering to our PC with many preventions and immunization strategies. But it is really necessary to know what kind of virus is going to attack when someone uses a computer with internet. That way the user can modify the configuration of some parameters and works for the computer to use them so it can prevent the direct contact with this kind of bad programs.

When the virus (or another menace) has infected the PC, it may appear a lot of symptoms in the performance or the configuration, for example, some of them can modify the Windows register, they can slow down the speed of each execution program commonly used by the user, it also can deny the internet exploration or maybe the regular documents download process will be interrupted suddenly. Those kinds of problem are usually caused by some kind of bad code, for that reason the user must know the kind of enemy he is about to fight with.

The viruses are the most dangerous menaces; they have the faculty to change the computer’s configuration completely and causing a bad performance of it, some of them can even increase their number and sometimes they can damage severely the hardware.

The worms are the bugs which get accumulated on the computer; they are the most recognized, inoffensive and easy to eliminate ones. Those programs cannot receive the name “virus” because they do not cause any kind of damage to the PC, simply overload the physical memory so it get slower little by little.

The Trojans are the heaviest and the most difficult to eliminate programs you can mess with, this is because there is no heuristic system to detect them on time, so that way the antivirus cannot even execute a single move against it so it remains useless. This kind of virus can be transferred by the files with the termination .Rar or maybe .Zip. Its method to enter in the computer is very nice and flashing but when it gets downloaded on the system (it may be cause with a simple click in the advertising window or perhaps with a direct download) the problems start to appear all of a sudden. These programs usually work through the chat by sending contact links to another person automatically or maybe with the program peer to peer (P2P) like Emule, Ares or Limewire.

The Jokes work by making pranks to the victims which have been clicking relentlessly on some kind of forum. For example, those little windows appearing on the screen and each time you try to close them up, they get appearing and appearing over and over again, although they will not cause any kind of damage to your computer, they can be really annoying if the user does not count with the necessary patience.

The Hoaxes work almost like the Trojans; they attract their victims with some kind of interesting message so the user will be tempted to visit that website. Those messages are sending massively through the e-mails, the most of them are called Spam or just advertising. They are not dangerous but annoying and their number on the internet is increasing amazingly.

After this short description about “the virus” which can attack our computers, actually it is time to know some ways to avoid being victims of those bad programs.

First, you must install on your computer a really good antivirus (Kaspersky, NOD32) this must be actualized and it also must count with the respective license. Beside you must count with a cookie cleaner program or anti spyware programs like the spybot or the CCleaner.

You must be really careful when you use some USB dispositive with you computer because it may contain any Trojan or something like it.

 You must try to avoid any downloading or installation of software through the internet. Likewise the use of crack, patch or key generator may be dangerous.

Finally, please do not open any link or file in the chat, because they are usually sent by the virus itself.