Avoid Getting Viruses With These 10 Tips

Posted in: Industry, Internet | September 23rd, 2008

Viruses, spyware, adware, malware, trojans and dialers all can cause complete havoc on your Windows PC.  The amount of harm can vary from annoying pop-ups to devastating data loss, or possibly even total corruption of the Windows OS.

The ten tips below in no way guarantee that you will be virus-free, but will help teach you safe computing practices that could minimize your chances of getting infected.

  1. Install a popular well known Antivirus application and keep it running at all times with automatic updates turned on.
  2. Install a popular well known Spyware/Adware application and keep it running at all times with automatic updates turned on.
  3. Make sure Windows Automatic Updates are enabled and downloaded/installed as soon as they are available.
  4. DO NOT click on email attachments unless you are expecting a document or file.
  5. DO NOT click on links in email ever.
  6. Use a Router even if you have only one computer.
  7. DO NOT visit pornography, crack and warez websites.
  8. DO NOT use file sharing applications.
  9. DO NOT click on pop-ups while surfing the web.
  10. DO NOT download software and files from unknown websites.
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7 Responses to “Avoid Getting Viruses With These 10 Tips”

  1. Music News Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:40 am

    its well known tips how prevent our computer form virus..
    i agree with number 7 because many virus come from
    pornography, crack and warez websites.

  2. Ankit Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:42 am

    can u give the name of some popular spyware which can be downloaded for free .
    thankx

  3. Maayan Gordon Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 5:39 am

    This is good advise. protecting your computer is very important.

  4. Fransiska Ike Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 6:05 am

    Being popular (antivirus) doesn’t mean it can deflect all infections. You need to put precaution too.

  5. Lee Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 am

    Yes, thanks, tbh I decimated my laptop with viruses, do belive I need it fixed.

    What is the best one to use, even if I have to cough up a few dollars?

  6. Tech Jamboree Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Lee,
    There are many good antivirus programs. The “best” is sort of speculative, but a few good choices would be Norton, Bitdefender and Kaspersky.

  7. Chris Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    SpyBot is a free spyware program that is good. Always surprises me what it turns up and I am a careful surfer.

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