Virus attacks are like traffic jams that you always wish you could avoid. Viruses hamper your computer pretending to be very useful application that can help improve your computer performance. First note that viruses come through the removable devices that you connect to your computer. If you have never known, e ipods and the digital cameras are hampering viruses in there memory devices so watch out!
Install good reputable virus software which can get updates every two days at least. Configure the anti-virus to block any foreign intruders, scan mails and files that you download even from chat rooms.
Incase there are other users who operate on your system, they may bring in viruses, alert them to scan there devices. Set a virus scan task for the whole computer after working hours, this allows no interference with the system from users.
Enabling the firewall prevents foreign IP address user to have access to your network or even your system. This keeps off hackers and criminals who can either delete all the data from the storages devices or drop a software application that can damage the whole system.
By installing useful tools that come with the most common browsers, it is possible to get a phishing tool that will help detect harmful sites. This will warn you before you open any harmful file from those sites that are not a proofed.
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