10 Smart Ways to Protect Your Computer against Viruses
by: Ms. Pinky Mcbanon
by: Ms. Pinky Mcbanon
Virus infection on your computer may cause a very serious damage and even loss
on your business. You can just imagine it may wreck your system registry or your
entire computer (with all your receivables data on it!) or all your HTML programs! It
will come to total black out screen, it will not boot at all. But that is actually the worse
scenario that may happen. Are you going to wait for this worse scenario in your life to
happen? I guess NOT, right?
Here are the 10 smart ways that I personally do to protect my computers against
viruses, malicious dialers and spywares.
(1)If you are using Windows XP, always turn on the firewall.
(2)Always run all necessary latest updates & service packs (all windows!
including all your programs & software!---keep them updated)
(3)Run your anti-virus program everyday (some do it every week) There are many
virus programs that you can get for free scanning.
(4)Run your anti-spyware/adaware once a week (I run Spybot Search & Destroy &
Lavasoft Adware Personal --- they are shareware, meaning it’s free!). What I do is
that, I run the Lavasoft Adware first, then run the Spybot Search and Destroy (I also
run it with “immunize” tool). These two tools are always on top of my desktop for
easy access.
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(5)Turn on the pop-up blocker – this feature is available on Windows XP (you can see this under tools>Internet Options
>Privacy>click Block Pop Ups. In addition to this, I also download another pop up blocker, the Google Toolbar. I find their pop
up blocker the most effective in blocking pop ups.
(6)Never open mails that are suspicious to you or not known to you. If they are in your bulk mail, send it back to your
provider as “spam”! I never enable my bulk mail. I automatically delete emails from my bulk mail.
(7)When using messenger (IM) services, be very careful with files being sent through instant messenger. Rather choose to
have it emailed it to you. Most of email services now has virus check and clears it if the file has virus or not.
(8)Be very careful when downloading files or any programs from the internet, pay attention on the instructions while
downloading it. Downloading may sometimes cause error on the system registry or the entire computer system (one
example, my nephew got his computer badly infected with viruses because of heavy downloading of games and music! – I
guess!)
(9)Be careful with files that come from a floppy disk or any other external storage when you open it in your CD ROM of floppy
drive. You should know its source, or better yet, when you insert it, have it scanned with your anti-virus program before you
open the files.
(10)Run defragmentation, disk clean up, registry scanner at least once a week. You can find defragmentation by simply
pointing your mouse on drive C: (which is usually the hard disk main logical drive)> right click the mouse>click on
properties>click on tools>click on defragment now!
There are so many shareware on the internet that you can get for free! (that is the reason it is a shareware!). Keeping your
computer healthy can make you more productive (if you have a business!) or it will make you enjoy more surfing and browsing
the internet!
>Privacy>click Block Pop Ups. In addition to this, I also download another pop up blocker, the Google Toolbar. I find their pop
up blocker the most effective in blocking pop ups.
(6)Never open mails that are suspicious to you or not known to you. If they are in your bulk mail, send it back to your
provider as “spam”! I never enable my bulk mail. I automatically delete emails from my bulk mail.
(7)When using messenger (IM) services, be very careful with files being sent through instant messenger. Rather choose to
have it emailed it to you. Most of email services now has virus check and clears it if the file has virus or not.
(8)Be very careful when downloading files or any programs from the internet, pay attention on the instructions while
downloading it. Downloading may sometimes cause error on the system registry or the entire computer system (one
example, my nephew got his computer badly infected with viruses because of heavy downloading of games and music! – I
guess!)
(9)Be careful with files that come from a floppy disk or any other external storage when you open it in your CD ROM of floppy
drive. You should know its source, or better yet, when you insert it, have it scanned with your anti-virus program before you
open the files.
(10)Run defragmentation, disk clean up, registry scanner at least once a week. You can find defragmentation by simply
pointing your mouse on drive C: (which is usually the hard disk main logical drive)> right click the mouse>click on
properties>click on tools>click on defragment now!
There are so many shareware on the internet that you can get for free! (that is the reason it is a shareware!). Keeping your
computer healthy can make you more productive (if you have a business!) or it will make you enjoy more surfing and browsing
the internet!
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