If you are not making effort to improve your Windows 7 security Running a program always carries risks. For example, a program executed by a normal user can easily change the registry so it will start every time you turn on your computer. Other times, a utility, designed to improve your operating system, can change the registry using methods that works in Windows XP but not in Windows 7. Viruses and other kind of malware can also change your system files and make your computer acts erratically. So what can we do to protect ourselves?
In this tutorial, you will learn how to protect your system from an untrusted software.
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There are times when you need to restrict an application access to the Internet. it could be that you you suspect the application is a malware, or that you don’t want your kids to be able to surf the web on your working PC. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how you can block a program access to the Internet, right from the context menu.
Long back, when I was running a Windows only PC, a firewall utility was always among the first software that I used to install on a newly formatted machine. Along with an Antivirus, a firewall used to be considered a must for any Windows installation that was in any way connected to the outside world.