| Recently, many anti-scam websites have been under | | | | PC, get one now. Antivirus can find and remove |
| denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by the scammers. | | | | viruses and trojan from your PC. There are three |
| Believe it or not, they're using the not-so-protected | | | | antiviruses that I personally recommend. Avast! |
| computers to perform the DDoS attack. The innocent | | | | Antivirus, AVG and Avira Antivir Personal Edition. |
| people unknowingly help this irresponsible people to | | | | 2. Firewall |
| perform the attack. This computer is called 'zombies' | | | | Firewall is important so you can block ingoing or |
| and the zombies computer are computers infected by | | | | outgoing traffic. If you have malicious programs on |
| virus or trojan and used by the scammers to perform | | | | your computer, it will not be able to send out |
| the DDoS attack. | | | | information out from your computer and firewall will be |
| The virus or trojan will open a backdoor on target | | | | able to block it. When you've bought a new PC, I |
| computer for the hackers so he or she will have | | | | suggest you to activate the Windows Firewall before |
| access to the target computer. In some cases, the | | | | going online. Even though the Windows Firewall cannot |
| hackers will sell the access to another person and that | | | | protect you from some malicious threats completely, |
| person will use the access to any purpose that the he | | | | but it's good enough to protect you before you install a |
| likes. If a spammer gets access to your computer, he'll | | | | new firewall. After that, you need to find a good |
| use it to send spam emails. | | | | firewall and install it in your system. I personally |
| The DDoS attack is perform by the scammers by | | | | recommend two free firewalls. Comodo Firewall Pro |
| sending useless data to a specific web server and | | | | and ZoneAlarm. |
| when the server cannot handle the data flow, it'll crash. | | | | 3. Spybot Search and Destroy |
| This is what's happening right now to many anti-scam | | | | Spybot Search and Destroy is good software to find |
| websites. | | | | spyware, malware and adware threats inside your PC. |
| This is just one thing what hackers can do when our | | | | It also has some real-time protection and best of all, it's |
| computer is not well protected. If I'm going to list what | | | | free. It has good detection rate and can detect |
| they can do to not-so-protected computers, it will be a | | | | keyloggers inside your computer. |
| long list. Therefore, we need to protect our computer. | | | | 4. Ad-Aware 2007 |
| But, some protection come at a high price and some | | | | Ad-Aware 2007 Free has been used by 250 million |
| are free. In this article, I will tell you where you can get | | | | people because it provides good protection. If you |
| good optimum computer protection without paying a | | | | have some money to spend, consider upgrading to |
| dime. | | | | Ad-Aware 2007 Plus because it has real-time |
| 1. Antivirus | | | | protection. However, the free edition is good enough if |
| Your computer needs an antivirus. A good antivirus will | | | | you're tight on budget. But you need a little more work |
| have real-time protection, good detection rate and it's | | | | because you have to perform the scan manually and |
| easy to use. If you don't have any antivirus on your | | | | it has no real-time protection. |