How to keep your Computer clean and safe

You can suggest, Blink as its a very good anti-virus program. And even after its 30 day trial it still protects but does not update. My friend on these forums has used it for a few years and has never gotten a single virus.

 

great thread downloaded both programs thanks man!

 

No problem

 

Very nice and helpful guide!

 

Very good guide, one of those guide which contains a small set of words but is very useful and images help a lot.

Good written guide, i might use this!

 

Thanks for your opinion

 

For disk defraggin windows defragger is NOT to be trusted. It will NOT fully clean up after itself. What we typically use is raxco's perfect disk. Really good defragger, doesn't take long at all. I typically use it just before moving partitions around where an NTFS is present.

It comes as a trial program, but there is no DRM present, so simply install it to a folder on your desktop, when finished delete it.

Other than that, not a bad guide.

Edit:

Oh yes! don't forget to cleare the startup! Less applications loading while your session is building == faster system Typically for a faster windows machine the key is gutting it out as much as possible. Since your windows typically doesn't allow you much free space on the processing block, it will also improve performance by freeing up space there as well

Also, I strongly recomend that you DO NOT use windows as administrator. It's simple to create a new account, you can easilly copy your files over and rechange permissions. But the simplest way to create a non admin account is to click start > type: cmd and hit enter. (do this as admin)

net user yournamehere /add
net user localgroups users yournamehere /add
exit

Ta-da! You've created a non-admin user. If you wish to move files to your non-admin account simply login as admin, move to your regular user documents folder, and drag'n'drop. For permissions, simply right click what it is that a user needs to share, go to properties, then permissions.

NO operating system is made to support non-stop super-user use. It is the biggest downfall in security, especially for windows. The thorn in its side is that the default user account is in the ADMIN localgroup. The admin (or admins if you make several) in a realistic sense, are only there for system management. I would do as Divine Blob suggested and use Blink, they have a neat security scanner called retina (like nessus but superior) that you can use to harden your system from vulnerabilities.

Simply by not running your system as admin will significantly stunt and retard your chances of getting a virus, and by running a good av such as blink it makes those odds an impossibility.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Download AVG and it does all that shit for you.
Anyways nice guide.

 

Great guide, thanks for making it.

 

No problem

 

Eerily similar to a guide I made, not sure whose is first but that's pretty odd.
Not a bad guide though, good job.

 

Thanks, it is an old guide.

 

Thanks a lot mate!
This guide helped me a lot on fixing some issues I had with my PC ^_^