Whether you've assembled a new PC, bought one right off the assembly line or if the growing concern of security has finally dawned on you after countless crashes and system formats - you have now decided that your PC deserves a higher level of protection. How do you go about executing this mountain of a task, considering all the armies of viruses, trojans, worms, spyware and other monstrosities of the digital world just waiting to claw their way into your beloved computer as soon as you connect it to an internet line? This is quite true. In fact, some estimates say that it can take only about 20 minutes for an unpatched and unprotected computer to be attacked once connected to the internet.

Read on and find out the various steps you can take to help save your precious Pc. While some of the steps are of a fire fighting nature, you'll find that most of them are preventive. Many are just safe computing practices that you need to follow to the tooth to avoid infection at all costs. When you get an infection, chances are that your installed security will be rendered useless so the key lies in not letting an infection occur in the first place. After all, as they say, prevention is better than cure. So let us begin. The first and fore most step is to install an antivirus.