Protect your PC from viruses and other trash FOR FREE

Intended for: Rookies

I have been watching the lack of knowledge and even people clumsilness in the protection of their own PC's. I don't want to scare anyone but is HARDLY DANGEROUS use a PC with a Windows OS without a suitable protection. I compare this with having bunny-like sexual relations in the middle of Africa without using comdoms... sounds hard? Is what it is, hard as life.

When you buy a PC, it could have or not a demo version of any protection that they used to finally charge
to your account. This protection costs about 50€ or even more for a year subscription. In that moment you don't receive new viruses definitions so, your machine starts to collapse!

A virus as a simplified description is an application that pretends to make troubles in your machine and infecto files in order to not being removed and turn them useless. An spyware application is a software designed for get your personal information and send it to other people for obvious reasons.

There are people that makes this work totally free (I'm one of these, but outside my work) and publishes antivirus and anti-spyware for free. Today I'm going to show you two totally free applications that I used to use diary and work very well.

Before start to install, we have to uninstall previous antivirus versions that we have. Two antivirus in the same machine makes conflicts and it could be possible to have to reinstall the OS. For that poupose we have to go Control Panel, Add or remove programs (in newer Windows, Programs) and find in the list the application to remove, selecting it and clicking over Uninstall. There is an antivirus which uninstall is a complete caos: Norton antivirus in any version. They have their own application to do this and here you can download it: Symantec Removal Tools

Once uninstalled, we have to download this software:

• Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials (not suitable for Windows 8, because is inside it as Windows Defender)
• AntiSpyware SpyBot S&D (for all Windows versions)

Why this applications and no other one? The antivirus is provided from Microsoft and is more efficient than othe applications (my experience is that it works fast as a bullet, your user experience is not affected). It's true that they could be not as updated to virus definitions as companies that make this work, but they're serious.

Spybot S&D is an old application and is for home users totally free.

Other possitive point for them is the user's ignorance, I mean that the user doesn't have to make anything until applications detect any anomalous behaviour.

All this protection is enough for a normal internet use (not for pirate pages or bizarre pornography).

Never use your PC without any protection, you maybe regret.

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