How to Prevent Your Computer from Infection by Viruses?
After reading above explanation, I believe you got some ideas about how viruses get into user computer and some tips on preventing your computer from infection. And now, you will see more detailed on how to prevent your computer from infection by viruses. To prevent your computer from becoming a victim of viruses you need to:
* Have an effective antivirus software program installed in your computer and always keeps it up to date by updating it. You can click here to read more about update antivirus software guide.
* Never open any e-mail attachments unless you know where that emails from and what is inside it. In some case, e-mail attachment from your friend also contains viruses.Example, your friend computer is infected by viruses or worms which automatically send e-mail attachment to all address in the list. If you are in that list, you will get one. That e-mail is not actually sent by your friend, but viruses did. So what is the solution? The solution is that you need to use antivirus software which has e-mail scanning feature. The program will perform checking when you open attachment file and alert warning message when it found any virus or suspicious file or behavior.
* Using Firefox as web browser (it is free, secure, easy to use web browser and also the most popular one). Firefox will block websites which contain viruses and show a message tells you that the website is block as attacked site. Firefox it is my favorite internet browser and I am using it as default browser. You can download it here Firefox Download Page.
* Never download file from website you never know unless you can trust about that site. And never download any things from pirate download site and torrent websites because most of files out there are illegal and many of them contain viruses.
I hope you enjoy this guide and get some ideas on how to protect your computer from viruses infection.
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