This tutorial will be a brief but sweet way for protecting your computer from harmful attacks especially if you have multiple computers sharing a network router which is very open to attack without proper computer protection.
Step 1: Make sure to have a firewall running active.
The firewall is very essential to blocking out potential hackers/spammers from getting in your network and unleashing a potential virus that can do something as bad as wipe your hard drive completely (has happened to me before) or just try to corrupt files from being used. Windows now has their own firewall protection as well as a monitoring system called Windows Defender, however it still may be more effective to use a standalone firewall protection company such as Norton Firewall 0r McAfee. These firewall software instantly detect any potential harmful activity that is surrounding your network and can even remove a potential attack from taking place if captured within time.
Step 2: Have an anti-virus software client ready
This is also a very crucial protector against viruses, spam and any kind of harm in the form of a file or fake installation program. Anti-viruses also can detect potential harm to the computer and can instantly remove it from your system if detected in time. Some companies that can do the job for this type of protection would be Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Norton.
Step 3: Use a Spyware/Malware protector.
Many people don’t realize is that potential harm to the computer doesn’t have to be in the form of a malicious attack on the network or a virus. It can be cookies stored on the computer that contain malware or spyware (which is also bad for the computer). These files try to install themselves onto your computer and can instantly corrupt your system. I personally have seen from my friends computers (of which i inspected), and their machines would be 50x slower than a normal pc. Loading time for an application as simple as the internet would be drastically slow. Once infected by spyware/malware, unless a good program is used such as Ad-Aware or Malwarebytes. Most of the time the computer can’t be fixed to operate at faster speeds unless completely cleaned (most likely installing a new copy of the operating system would fix this solution, but it can be costly and timely as an installation can take anywhere from 1 hour to hours of the day because of all the programs and drives (audio,sound, video) have to be reinstalled and if an operating system disc is not available, then it must be purchases and that can cost anywhere from 199.99-399.99 for the disc.