Many users experienced annoying popup windows opening in front of their eyes from time to time. Most of the times, you are in front of a website that shows new windows to their visitors, but in many cases this has nothing to do with the website you visit and is caused by a malicious program that has taken control of your computer.
How to know who is the culprit?
If you know that the website you are visiting does not shows popup windows or the info presented in the popup windows has nothing to do with the website you are visiting, then you probably have malware inside your PC, specially if the popups appear very often. Since it’s impossible to deal by hand with this problem, Panda Software, one of the world leaders of Internet security solutions, offers a complete package with a generous discount for a limited time.
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How these malware got into my PC?
There are many ways malware gets into a PC.
- You downloaded a screen-saver from an un-trusted source
Maybe you don’t like screen-savers too much, but your son or daughter loves them. If someone else from you will be using your PC, instruct him about the many common threats on the Internet. If you don’t know them yourself, you could subscribe to our course and learn easily what took us years to learn.
- You visited a bad website without using the Firefox Browser (Totally free and comes with the Google Toolbar).
Internet Explorer is so bad from a security perspective that you could read thousand of pages on the Internet if you take only 5 minutes to search at Google. The Mozilla Foundation saw this problem some time ago and developed a safer browser and best of all, it’s free.
- You downloaded a program from a bad website
Bad sites are everywhere on the Internet. This is the main reason you could be very aware of all the possible problems but get attacked without having automatic tools to protect you. Many times you could identify bad sites by their look and try to not visit them in the future.
- A friend emailed you a program and you opened unknowingly.
You should be very careful when opening email attachments since this is the preferred way hackers like to spread viruses, spyware and other malware. Only open attachment from trusted sources.
- You opened Spam with executable content.
Spam is responsible for most of the infections in PC’s today. We have developed a system to stop spam or reducing it to almost cero while not losing any email. This is not some program you can install and use, it is a system you should employ to have a very clean inbox. Requires some work and the use of clean emails addresses (not used before for any purpose) but you will receive almost cero spam promise that no email provider can fulfil now.
Conclusion
Infection comes by many other ways, but these are the most common ones. Thanks to The Mozilla Foundation, we have a best browser to be more secure.
Although an Antivirus program is very important to stay secure on the net, you must also know the common threats and how to deal with them to have a satisfying experience using your PC every day without risk and hassles and if you don’t know them you could subscribe to our email course to receive all the secrets to be secure on the Internet.
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