Protecting A Newly Bought PC

If you just bought a new PC, what should you do first before anything else? I think there are many answers out there, but for me, it will be protecting your PC from any malicious software such as spyware, adware, rootkit, malware and so on.

So, what is the first step that you should do before anything else?

The first thing that you need to do is to turn on the Windows Firewall. Even though it's not that good, but at least it can protect you from some threats rather than you're surfing online naked.

After that, you can find better firewall from the Internet. There are many firewalls that are free to download. Just search it on Google and you'll find it. I recommend you to use Comodo Firewall Pro or ZoneAlarm.

However, using firewalls also need you to have some knowledge about the processes that are running in your PC. Because if you don't know which process is malicious and which is not, that could become a problem.

If you want to know which process is malicious and which is not, open your task manager, find the running processes tab and search for each process on Google. That should give you some idea.

After that, if you find unknown process trying to send information out or trying to get in, you will know it if it's malicious or not.