Perhaps you bought a new PC complete with anti virus and anti spyware software programs pre-installed, believing that would be all that was necessary to protect your investment.
But why has that computer slowed down to a crawl resembling a traffic jam in New York City and what are all those popups about anyway?
Too many people discover the meaning (or lack of) PC security once they have a system crippled by viruses, trojans, adware, and spyware generally termed under the heading Malware.
A little background about me:
I was one of those caught in the above scenerio some years ago.
One computer kept me happily surfing until it became clear something was awfully remiss and my local ISP’s techie had no clue what was wrong.
We were unaware of the malware explosion quickly taking hold of the World Wide Web.
Eventually I bought another PC with a software firewall and became curious about one particular nasty scanning the ports.
Looking for information led me to Spyware Info a help site for victims of malware infections.
I attended Classroom at Tom Coyote (now What The Tech) and Bootcamp at Spyware Info. both of which were established in order to train people to help others whose computers are infected with malware.
Four years later I enjoy being involved in the security field as an Administrator and researcher as well as actively assisting members in the forums.
There are terrific Blogs out there raising peoples awareness about Internet security.
It encouraged me to endeavour to do the same.
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