Dirty Little Computer Viruses And How To Protect Yourself
By Dan Preston

Whether you have learned your lesson from a past experience
with a nasty computer virus or have been pressing your luck by
surfing the web and downloading various files or opening those
email messages sent to you by people you don’t know without any
real understanding of just how vulnerable you really are each
time you log onto your computer.

You now have the opportunity to discover what steps you can
take to avoid such an annoying and many times destructive
infestation.

Listed below are some of the guidelines you can follow in order
to keep those nasty viruses from making a mess out of your
computer and your life.

• Purchase and install a well respected antivirus software
program and be sure to set it up so that it automatically runs
when the computer starts up each time.

• Make sure to keep your antivirus software up to date by
either using the automatic update feature that many come with
or make it a habit to manually check at least once or twice a
week for updates on your own.

• Set your antivirus program to scan for potential viruses each
time you open a word-processing document like the ones that get
sent through email. Viruses found in word-processing documents
are called Macro Viruses.

• When purchasing software make sure to only buy from vendors
that are well known and from ones you trust.

• Resist swapping data with the use of floppy disks or other
mobile storage devices between various computers. If exchanging
programs between computers is unavoidable just make sure to scan
the storage device(s) for viruses before transferring data from
one computer to the next.

• If using floppy disks to transfer data make sure to format
them before using them for the first time.

• Never use pirated software. This is both illegal and a very
good way to invite an unwanted computer virus.

• When downloading software from the internet do so as little
as possible. There are many neat programs available on the
internet, but unfortunately there are many viruses that go
along with them also.

• If you must download programs from the internet ALWAYS scan
them for viruses BEFORE opening them up to install on your
computer.

• Probably the most important and neglected method of disaster
recovery are periodic backups of all important files found on
your computer. Should a virus happen to get through your lines
of defense you may need to replace the virus corrupted files
with fresh ones that have been kept for such an occasion.

Finally, it is not guaranteed that if you follow the above
steps that you will not be the victim of a computer virus, but
you can sure bet that if followed you will greatly reduce the
chance of being an unsuspecting recipient of such an unwanted
program.

About the Author: Dan spends alot of time working on his
internet ventures. He currently has a T-Shirt store at
http://fullautotshirts.com and an ebook store at
http://online-book-store.net that he works very hard to
maintain for his visitors.

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