Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Internet Based Problems

Internet has given us many benefits, best services, faster access to the world. But now a days lot of problems occurs due to malwares, virus, spam mails etc.How to solve these problems are listed below

Virus

Once, when we used floppies then virus are being transmitted through them.But after the arrival of other drives,Internet we unknowingly download files that contain viruses.

Through MS Word, Excel micro virus enter our system. Because of these viruses, we cannot stop browsing Internet or receive mails.

Thus best,reliable antivirus software must be installed in our system.Every week we must try to update the antivirus software for better results (Its considered best practice).

Banned (Unwanted) Websites

There are many unwanted websites which promote religious/language/country/vulgar based emotions in every individual.

The software which contains parental Control can be used to prevent the child from seeing the unwanted content in websites.In Internet Explorer, content advisor can be used to filter these unwanted sites.

Sometimes we may receive mails from unwanted sites.Do not read those mails. Use Message Filtering feature from softwares for filtering the good from bad mails.

Spam Mails

Mails related to

Ways to make money
How to reduce weight
Get the wish from god

are some of the mails that are sent to individual mails daily. Please don't read those mails and straightly delete them. Because of these unwanted spam mails, Internet connection nowadays create problems.

In mail softwares, proper message filtering is assigned. Anti Spam software programs can be used. Spam Blocker, Spam Bustef, Spamnet can be used for blocking spam mails. These softwares identify which are spam mails and automatically deletes it( So these spam mails never reach our mail box itself)

Spywares

By using software, some downloads are being done by using Internet.But some downloads include spywares (Program that are hidden in download).

These hidden programs(spywares) also gets installed in our system.Spywares sends information to spyware developer(some times refered as hackers) through internet as

What all websites the user has browsed,
What all advertisements the user has clicked,
What all passwords the user has typed,
the user's credit card details etc

Thus these hackers indirectly(illegally) make use of our internet services which is worst hit for the internet users.To avoid such problems anit-spywares softwares has to be installed in ur system.

AdAware is one such anti-spyware which prevents most of the spyware attacks.
This software can be downloaded from the website www.lavasoftusa.com

Pop Ups

Lot of Pop up windows appears in form of advertisements. For closing all the pop ups is irritating task.Thus these types of popup windows can be blocked by using softwares.

For example Popup Stopper is one such free software which blocks all unwanted popups. Thus by proper measures all the internet based problems can be avoided(can almost be eliminated).

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