Prevent adware attacks with these 5 useful tips

Adware has a high potential of harming your computer as well as destroying every information you have stored in it. Every computer user must take precautions while visiting sites with adverts, downloading apps from both known and unknown sources as well as using email clients who allow third-party services to use their spaces. To prevent adware attacks is highly necessary in surviving in the digital world

So how can adware be prevented?

To prevent adware attacks, avoid downloading apps from unknown sources

We all want easy things at one point and one of the easiest things is opening a browser and downloading software from search results displayed by Google. This dangerous. If you are to download software from the source results, it has to be from the developer himself. Every day people are surviving from selling what is feck including software that has advert code meant to lead you to sources having adware or even cause you to install a file that will infect your device

Install an anti-virus in your device.

For quite sometime, I have used an anti-virus that blocks adware and lets you peacefully operate your device. With an anti-virus like kaspersky, you will prevent adware and reduce the risk of adverts running on your desktop non-stop

Block all notifications from suspicious websites.

The majority of us will allow sites to send us notifications from websites and these notifications sometimes are popups that disrupt your activity. Moreover it gets hard to operate our devices when they are busy popping up nonstop in the background

Perform updates

Why should we perform updates? because updates come up with new improvements of software used and as well restrictions that will prevent you from harm

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Be aware of phishing

Some adware is spread through phishing links. It is through a phishing link that a user is tricked to click on a link for a website containing adware

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