![]() That's because as soon as new versions of them are released, criminals are going to "reverse engineer" them to find out what changed, and write new malware that targets vulnerabilities that were fixed in the latest releases. You also want to make darn sure you keep your Operating System, Internet Browsers and Plugins (Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat Reader Microsoft Silverlight Media Players, etc.) fully updated. That way, if you happen to visit a web page with malicious code on it that you're not yet protected against, it won't be able to infect system level files (but, even if it can't infect system level files, some malware can compromise the files under a specific user account, so you'll want to protect against that type of infection, too) ![]() Setting up a standard user account is as simple as searching for standard user account after clicking on the start button, then following the prompts.īut, if you already have a lot of stuff stored under an existing account, then it's probably a better idea to setup a new admin account first, then just change the account using your existing username to a limited (standard) user account without any admin permissions. ![]() See this article on setting up an account that way: I'd also make sure to run using a Standard (a.k.a., limited) user account without any Admin permissions. Then supplement one of those with the free version of Malwarebytes Antiexploit (as it uses heuristics to guard against browser and plugin exploits like those that are frequently used against Flash Player to infect your system when browsing web sites). I'd probably go with either Kaspersky or Bitdefender (and they have a variety of products to choose from). ![]()
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