Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Virus and Spyware

Stap to protect your PC from viruses

- Automatic protection of anti-virus software should be turned on at all times.
- perform a manual scan or schedule a scan to occur automatically weekly.
- Scan all removable disks before first use.
- Enable Automatic Update option on anti-virus software
- Periodic backups of the hard disk should be done.
- Buy legal copies of all software they use and make write-protected backups.
- Email messages and email attachments from unknown people should not be opened.
- Make sure that Macro Virus Protection is enabled in all Microsoft applications, and they should never run macros in a document unless they know specifically the functionality of the macros.
- Appropriate Passwords should be assigned to the shared network drives.
- Disable auto run mood, so that auto virus form disk or removable drive cannot infect PC

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