So you have a computer. Whether it is newly acquired or not, it is your responsibility to take care of it so you will have the best use of the machine. Aside from not spilling any liquids or tiny solid fragments like bread crumbs onto the keyboard or the monitor and maintaining a good ventilation, one must also maintain some up-to-date scanners for the protection of the stored files, programs and others softwares against the ever attacking computer viruses, malwares and other harmful programs that are over the internet.

Top one on the list is the Registry Scanner or Registry Cleaners. These programs are types of software utility especially created for the cleanup of the computer’s Windows registry. These softwares, when run, attempt to remove unnecessary or unwanted registry keys in the computer that can damage the system if not removed. Having this software scanner is a great advantage due to the size and complexity of the registry. To manually clean up the Windows Registry of erroneous entries are deemed to be impractical. Registry cleaners do the task of cleaning up debris from the registry automatically and efficiently, thus helping your computer’s speed and performance greatly.

The next one is the Privacy Scanner. When we are online, the computer saved up lots of data we do not notice and they are usually stored in the temporary folder, browser history, and recent documents and so on. Long after we leave the computer, absolutely anyone can take a look into your computer and read your online history and can see everything listed in your computer’s privacy report! Right from the moment we start the computer up until we leave, the computer stores everything we did and anybody can access that. The private information you have entered, password you have typed, those sites you have visited and even the documents you have made are taken into account. So the privacy scanner’s job is to eliminate the data that the computer stored and remembered. These softwares are made to protect you from identity theft, give you online privacy, manages the cookies that allows online tracking of your information and many more. They scan your computer after you used it and erased the tracks that were left in it.

The last, yet definitely not the least, is the Malware Scanner. As we all have knowledge of, a malware is a type of harmful software or computer program that goes into your computer and causes mayhem without the owner’s consent, known also as malicious software or pest-ware. Some common examples of malwares are the Trojan horse and the MMMMMM virus which are very popular in the internet and can easily come into your computer system if you are not protected. A good malware scan deletes these harmful programs and cleans the computer of those files that have been affected. Malware scanners fix files that were touched by the malware and restore them, if possible. Also, these types of scanners offer protection for future malware attack. Just keep in mind to always update these scanners to be able to perform well.