How I keep my computer happy and healthy
Some of you might have noticed that I took down my latest post about “Paid the Fastest”. If you remember, I was gushing over the fact that the “daily click offers” were a great way to add around thirty cents more a day to our online earnings. Of course there are other ways to make money on “Paid the Fastest”, but the majority of them I wouldn’t recommend. Only because most of those other offers will load your in box with tons of spam ( which we opted to receive ) and your hard drive with adware, spyware and malware …oh my! GameVance is particularly nasty.
Anyways, the “Daily Click Offers” were taken down for the weekend with the hope that they would return on Monday. I totally understand this move, and it happened to Treasure Trooper a few months ago. Treasure Trooper’s Cash Clicks went from around 30 per day, to nothing, and now up to twenty four ads to click on a day.
So instead of misleading anyone, I decided to hide that post from the world, until further notice. Here it is Wednesday and there’s no word on when and if they will return. So until that happens I’ll keep the last post hidden.
Now, because a lot of you will be enticed to join a “Get Paid To” site like “Paid the Fastest” and complete a few offers for a couple dollars. I thought I’d talk a bit about internet security and show you four really cool and FREE ways to keep your computer clean and and relatively happy and healthy.
I’ve picked up pretty much every virus, worm, adware, malware and the such over the last fifteen or so years I’ve been online. For the past six years I’ve managed to keep my little HP Pavillion lap top pretty happy and running smoothly. Although, I get the occasional hic up, I really don’t have a problem diagnosing whats slowing down my ‘puter.
A couple weeks ago, I experienced the frustrating slow down, where everything comes to a crawl. I pretty much know that when my hard drive starts whirring and breathing heavy, that something is updating. Often times it’s something I purposely downloaded to protect me from the nasties. Other times it’s something that showed up from a previous download. In either case. It’s annoying, and because my computer is almost six years old now, it’s not always receptive to new things.
So after many years of trying different adware, firewall, maleware and virus protection, I’ve settled on four FREE programs that keep my computer running smoothly. All four are small downloads, so I have been very happy with not using up too much disk space. Plus they all work quite well at doing what they are supposed to do… Keeping Crap out of my office ( laptop ).
Once again, all these programs are FREE. Some have upgrades available, but the Free versions work just fine.
1.Speaking of “crap”. CCleaner, which originally stood for Crap Cleaner, is in my opinion the absolute best ( and number one choice ) for not only keeping your system clean but your registry as well. I absolutely use it everyday.
2. MalwareBytes. I run this at least once a week when I’m done for the night and ready for bed. I can’t think of any malware removal program that has worked as well as MalWareBytes. Once again, it’s FREE.
3. SuperAntiSpyWare. I run this along side MalwareBytes, and it does a phenomenal job of getting rid of adware and the such.
4. Finally. Virus protection.
I’ve settled on the FREE version of Avast. Not only does it block pretty much anything that I tend to pick up online, but there are no annoying updates that turn on once a night and bring my online experience to a standstill.
So there ya go. If you have a slow running computer that needs a bit of love, all four of the above programs should speed things up a great deal. Plus keep you adequately protected from virus’s. I’m not going to guarantee that you’ll never get a virus, I’m just sharing what works for me.
Time for bed and only three posts and ten emails behind. Someday I’ll get caught up.
Phil ( not very techy ) Ames
Oh and, if Paid the Fastest brings the “Daily Click Offers” back. I’ll take my “Big Thumbs Up” review out the the private bin.
