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Protection for your computer

In modern day computing we suffer from malicious attacks from hackers and computer viruses, which can cause all sorts of problems including loss of information stored on your computer. Also, many email accounts are bombarded with unwanted junk mail, or spam, which results in us spending a lot of time clearing out these mail items. Other intrusions to our system can be caused by spyware, which is software stored on your machine that sends information about you or your internet habits to the software owners.

We have written articles for the Killin News, related to hackers, viruses and spam, which can be viewed here.

This page provides links to websites that offer free products to protect you from these attacks.

Hackers: protection is provided via a Firewall, which is an application configured to prevent unauthorised access to your computer. Zonelabs offer a free firewall ZONEALARM which can be downloaded from www.zonelabs.com Virus Protection: there are many anti-virus products on the market. Whichever you chose, it is essential that you regularly download updates. A popular choice is AVG available from www.grisoft.com

Spyware: Tools to protect you from this form of intrusion are widely available from the internet. Popular choices include the free market leading ADAWARE available at www.lavasoftusa.com

Spam: many email programs, including Outlook offer spam or junk mail handling mechanisms. Also free anti-spam applications are available from the internet. Mailwasher is popular www.mailwasher.net

If you believe you have been subjected to an attack, and you would like expert help, please feel free to contact us

Please note that Frogspawn Computers can not be held liable for the success or failure of any application downloaded from external websites.