10/23/07

Needed: Antivirus

You hear the word virus and the cold down your spine! With laptops, and to become an integral part of our lives, the risk of infection from your PC, but a malicious viruses increases. So, if you have a PC, you have a better anti-virus software too. Whether Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Brontox, so your PC is vulnerable with these viruses. The antivirus software creates a firewall against the countless dangerous viruses that can infect your computer.

So how exactly did your PCs are infected? There are two main reasons. The first is through emails. Yes, if you open an infected attachment from an email and save it to your hard drive, your PC will be infected. What happens is that when you save an attachment to your hard drive, the attachment can release and execute code that will perform certain actions harmful to your computer. The measures which may be exercised by this code can vary greatly like hacking passwords or confidential information such as credit card numbers, etc., that can be stored on your computer. It may then transmit the same confidential data to the sender of the virus. Another way your PC might be attacked is extremely nasty, and it's by visiting a Web site, which the server has been infected by a virus. This virus is transmitted through the Internet to your hard drive and win once the damage is irreparable. At times, some virus is stored in the address field and are automatically forwarded to everyone in your mailbox via an email address. It is a good way viruses that spread like rapid fire.

So what can you do to stay protected? Well, install antivirus software on your computer. In market McAfee, Norton, AVG, virus, etc. are software products that are on the top and the most widely used. How exactly these programs help? Antivirus will scan your e-mail before downloading attachments and save them on your hard drive. In this way, e-mail is forbidden to infect your PC. If your PC is already infected and you use antivirus and antivirus will first try to delete the file intruders and all its components. If this is not possible, he will try to repair the corrupted file which has been adapted by the virus. If the repair is not possible for the virus then simply place in the corrupted file in quarantine so that it can not infect other files.

Although antivirus software are freely available on the Internet, it is always wise to buy the full version to be protected. Always scan your PC with the virus every two days. Do not open or download attachments which you are skeptical. Keep control over what Web sites you visit. With the virus, there may be a cure for infected files, but it is always said that prevention is better than cure!

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