Check Your PC First!
With all the downloadable games on internet being offered to us with just a click on the search button, we are given loads and loads of it. Your gaming instincts all geared up and ready to go, but is your PC ready too? Aside from the threat to the safety of your data, malware can have irreversible effects on your system and computer performance. Even your internet connection and network bandwidth can be at risk.
Where Do They Come From
- software downloads
- peer-to-peer networks (e.g., Kazaa)
- floppies, CD or DVDs emails and their attachments
- chat rooms
- your colleagues on the network
- the Internet in general
- spyware and adware installed and lurking over the internet
- viruses transmitted through email
- keyloggers penetrating your firewall
- malicious code broadcast over peer-to-peer networks.
Malicious software or popularly know as "Malware", comes in different forms, and each them are specifically designed to damage the infected machine (your computer).
- They maliciously redirect your search attempts, serve pop-up ads, track your web history, or delete important documents stored in your computer. Malware sleeps like a baby on your computer without you ever even noticing, or until you realize and wonder how slow your system is becoming and why is it periodically so trigger happy on rebooting.
I think the most disturbing to know about Malware is that it can wipe your hard drives clean, and steal information about you then send your secrets and not-so-secret information to third parties for "whatever purpose that would serve them best."
- It's favorite spot is in the deepest recesses of your system making removing it all the more difficult and may even reinstall itself even after you thought you had deleted it!"
Watch out for any unusual computer behavior. There may be an alteration of the system registry which would eventually grant remote access to your computer. Other side effects include - system instablility, and your computer just don't run smoothly as it used to.
You Can Avoid These!
Be sure to update and check your system regularly to protect your data in all the jargon of these security threats that are coming your from so many different sources especially from free and readily available games on internet.
Remember, malware toll is not only on your data but also on your system settings, it is within your computer thus affecting its performance, and your Internet connections, making it difficult to work and most of all play games on internet if you are without adequate protection. "All work and no play, makes our lives...@^#%#*! :)
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