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Tips to Fight off Viruses and tackle Malware infections
07-13-2009, 06:57 AM (This post was last modified: 07-13-2009 06:58 AM by techsniper.)
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Tips to Fight off Viruses and tackle Malware infections
Protecting your computer from a virus is getting harder and harder each day. While it may border on the paranoid, it goes without saying that you can’t leave your guard down for one second. Even corporate giant Microsoft has found its own systems compromised on more than one occasion.

Remember the “good old days”, before the advent of the Internet and downloadable programs? Life was simple then in terms of computer viruses. With the primary way in which a virus could be transmitted being limited to floppy disks, the ability to catch and eradicate the virus was a lot easier. By today’s standards, it used to take quite a while before a virus was able to infect a computer and slow down the system. The antivirus software of that time was typically able to identify and eradicate viruses before they caused too much damage. Additionally, computer users were pretty savvy on how to protect themselves in terms of scanning all floppy disks before copying them to our desktop.

The Internet helped change all that. The Internet provided a conduit by which viruses could move from host to host with lightening speed. No longer could a computer user just worry about floppy disks as points of entry, but they now had to worry about email, email attachments, peer-to-peer file sharing, instant messaging, and software downloads. Today’s viruses can attack through multiple entry points, spread without human intervention, and take full advantage of vulnerabilities within a system or program. With technology advancing everyday, and the convergence of computers with other mobile devices, the potential of new types of threats also increase.

Protecting Your Computer from Malware

Luckily, the advancement of antivirus software has kept pace with current virus threats. Antivirus software is essential to a computer’s ability to fend off viruses and other malicious programs. These products are designed to protect against the ability of a virus to enter a computer through email, web browsers, file servers and desktops. Additionally, these programs offer a centralized control feature that handle deployment, configuration and updating.

A computer user should remain diligent and follow a few simple steps to protect against virus and other malicious threats.

Evaluate your current PC Security defence line
With the threat of a new generation of viruses able to attack in a multitude of ways, the approach of having just one antivirus software version has become outdated. You need to be confident that you have protected all aspects of your computer system from the desktop to the network, and from the gateway to the server. Consider a more comprehensive security system which includes several features including antivirus, firewall, content filtering, and intrusion detection. This type of system will make it more difficult for the virus to penetrate your system.

Only install antivirus software coming out of reputable brands.
As new viruses erupt daily, it is important that you regularly update your antivirus software. Become familiar with the software’s real-time scan feature and configure it to start automatically each time you boot your computer. This will protect your system by automatically checking your computer each time it is powered up.

Scan all your downloads
Make it a habit of always scanning all new programs or files no matter from where they originate. Do not download programs or software from untrusted sources. Avoid Warez, cracks websites.

Exercise caution when opening binary executables, Word, Excel documents or Email attachments
Always be cautious while opening files from questionable sources or especially if they were received during an online chat or as an attachment in an email.

Backing up important data on regular intervals
Perform regular backups in case your system is corrupted. It may be the only way to recover your data if infected.
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03-16-2010, 07:49 PM
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Wow its a very best information about Viruses and tackle Malware infections.Malware is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system,without the owner's informed consent.Malware is commonly taken to include computer viruses, worms,Trojan horses, spyware and some adware.In computer security,a computer virus is a self-replicating computer program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable codes or documents.
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12-03-2010, 03:01 AM
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To protect your computer from viruses is so hard now a days.Also if you are using internet then many possibilities of viruses.To protect pc from virus use best anti virus and keep update your anti virus daily.Also always turnoff your system restore.
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12-13-2010, 05:09 PM (This post was last modified: 05-27-2012 11:41 PM by barneskapa47.)
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there is better solution for that user's who have register windows operating systems Microsoft essential security system is best anti virus for mail ware and other kind of viruses so use this and keep enjoying security
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12-30-2010, 08:10 AM
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Use best anti-virus and firewall protection.I am using Quick heal anti-virus and It is best to prevent viruses and male-ware.Turn off system restore during scanning.Update your anti-virus daily.Don't click on strange e-mails and advertisement.
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01-05-2011, 07:37 PM
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I have a best deal for ever that is norton antivirus 2011. it provide deep scan and remove all kind of viruses,spywares and worms .It Installs quickly and does not slow down the speed of a PC and provides automatic update utility
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01-09-2011, 05:21 AM
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To protect your computer from viruses is so hard, if you use the Internet is now a days.Also so many possibilities viruses.To protect your computer from viruses using the best anti-virus and anti-virus constantly update your system daily. Also always off recovery.
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03-19-2011, 05:01 AM
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04-02-2011, 03:08 AM
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You have given a very good and a nice tips for fight with viruses. The information which you have given for it is beneficial for me also for others who wants to know this. I liked and very much impressed by this.
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04-08-2011, 02:28 AM
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I don't understand how to thankful to you for sharing a very useful tips which is much beneficial for preventing malware infection. Also Malware infection is much hamful for PC and to prevent it is necessary. So this tips are much useful for all this.
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