How Can I Protect Myself?
1. Make sure you have at least two backups for all of your files. Backups are
essential not only to safely
recover from virus infections, but also to recover from the other threats to
your data.
2. When someone gives you a floppy disk, use a virus protection program to check it.
3. When downloading files from the internet, only download from reputable sites.
4. Use common sense when opening email attachments. Be very wary, if you don't know the sender. Scan all attachments with a anti-virus protection application before opening.
5. Acquire software from reputable sources: 2nd-hand software is frequently unchecked and sometimes infected. Bear in mind that shrink-wrapped software isn't necessarily unused. In any case, reputable firms have shipped viruses unknowingly.
6. Once formatted, keep floppies write-disabled except when you need to write a file to them: then write-disable them again.
7. Scan pre-formatted diskettes
before use.
Your guide to safe computing
Listed below are some of the steps recommended by experts to safeguard your PC from viruses. These are a compilation of my past experiences and magazine sources.
1. Write-protect your floppy disks when using them on other computers.
2. Remove floppy disks from drives while booting.
3. Change a setting in the BIOS that enables your PC to boot from the C-drive first.
4. Use a good anti-virus program to scan floppy disks before copying files. Recommended ones are Norton Antivirus 2005 and MacAfee 5.
5. Install software only from original write-protected disks with the publisher’s label.
6. Do not install pirated software, especially computer games.
7. Activate watch-guard programs (monitors) that look out for suspicious activity.
8. Use the update service offered by software vendors and updates the anti-virus software every month.
9. Scan the entire hard disk twice a month.
10. Scan files downloaded from the Internet or those transferred through a network.
11. Prepare a rescue disk with critical system files. Preferably, it should be bootable.
12. Keeps the original CD-ROM or diskettes containing the operating system handy.
Anti-Virus Software
If you're concerned about the virus threat, the time to obtain anti-virus software is before you get a virus. It's much better to prevent a virus infection than to have to deal with one. If your system is virus-free, anti-virus software can help keep it that way, providing you keep the program updated, and check all newly-obtained software and disks before using them the first time.
Here are the list of some AntiVirus Software
McAfee Virus Scan | NortonAntiVirus | Trend Micro
You can download any AntiVirus Software to protect your PC. Click any link above
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