Some general tips on avoiding virus infections:
1. Install anti-virus software from a well-known, reputable company, UPDATE it regularly and USE it regularly.
2. New viruses come out every single day; an antivirus program that hasn’t been updated for several months will not provide much protection against current viruses.
3. In addition to scanning for viruses on a regular basis, install an ‘on access’ scanner (included in most good antivirus software packages) and configure it to start automatically each time you boot your system. This will protect your system by checking for viruses each time your computer accesses an executable file.
4. Virus scans any new programs or other files that may contain executable code before you run or open them, no matter where they come from. There have been cases of commercially distributed floppy disks and CD-ROMs spreading virus infections.
5. Anti-virus programs aren’t very good at detecting Trojan horse programs, so be extremely careful about opening binary files and Word/Excel documents from unknown or ‘dubious’ sources. This includes posts in binary newsgroups, downloads from we/ftp sites that aren’t well-known or don’t have a good reputation, and executable files unexpectedly received as attachments to E-mail or during an on-line chat session.
6. If your e-mail or news software has the ability to automatically execute JavaScript, Word macros, or other executable code contained in or attached to a message, I strongly recommend that you disable this feature.
7. Be extremely careful about accepting programs or other files during on-line chat sessions: this seems to be one of the more common means that people wind up with virus or Trojan horse problems. And if any other family members (especially younger ones) use the computer, make sure they know not accept any files while using chat.
8. Do regular backups. Some viruses and Trojan horse programs will erase or corrupt files on your hard drive and a recent backup may be the only way to recover your data.
Ideally, you should back up your entire system on a regular basis. If this isn’t practical, at least backup files that you can’t afford to lose or that would be difficult to replace: documents, bookmark files, address books, important E-mail, etc.
Precaution:
1. Before using the floppy disk of others, check the disk whether it is virus free or not.
2. Do not use the computer unless the viruses are totally removed from the infected computer.
3. Do not use pirated software.
4. Do not let anyone to use your computer.
5. Lock the computer when not in use.
6. Lock you computer system with psssword.
7. Never run you anti-virus software, while the memory is infected by the virus, because the virus active in memory transfer that virus into your anti-virus software and your program may not able to work.
8. Don’t be confirm that all the anti-virus sotware can remove viruses, it depends up on the infected fileor boot sector virus(es), which may be active for long time. If the virus is active and you have been using it for long time then there is less possibility of removing the virus.
9. Always boot from write protected bootable diskette so that the bootable diskette itself doesn’t catch virus.
10. Never allow floppy disc brought from outside to be used directly on PC without checking tha floppy for virus presence.
11. Be careful while checking mail having attached documents.
12. Keep all original EXE and COM files in a write-protected floppy.
13. If COM and EXE files are required to be copied anywhere, copy only from written-protected original floppy.
14. In case the system is ‘hanging’ (or floating), the reason could be Virus. Check for virus.
15. Avoid playing computer games on a computer where important data is stored as it is generally noticed that the virus spreads faster through game floppies.
16. Install any one anti-virus program i.e. NAV, McAfee etc. and update it regularly.
2. New viruses come out every single day; an antivirus program that hasn’t been updated for several months will not provide much protection against current viruses.
3. In addition to scanning for viruses on a regular basis, install an ‘on access’ scanner (included in most good antivirus software packages) and configure it to start automatically each time you boot your system. This will protect your system by checking for viruses each time your computer accesses an executable file.
4. Virus scans any new programs or other files that may contain executable code before you run or open them, no matter where they come from. There have been cases of commercially distributed floppy disks and CD-ROMs spreading virus infections.
5. Anti-virus programs aren’t very good at detecting Trojan horse programs, so be extremely careful about opening binary files and Word/Excel documents from unknown or ‘dubious’ sources. This includes posts in binary newsgroups, downloads from we/ftp sites that aren’t well-known or don’t have a good reputation, and executable files unexpectedly received as attachments to E-mail or during an on-line chat session.
6. If your e-mail or news software has the ability to automatically execute JavaScript, Word macros, or other executable code contained in or attached to a message, I strongly recommend that you disable this feature.
7. Be extremely careful about accepting programs or other files during on-line chat sessions: this seems to be one of the more common means that people wind up with virus or Trojan horse problems. And if any other family members (especially younger ones) use the computer, make sure they know not accept any files while using chat.
8. Do regular backups. Some viruses and Trojan horse programs will erase or corrupt files on your hard drive and a recent backup may be the only way to recover your data.
Ideally, you should back up your entire system on a regular basis. If this isn’t practical, at least backup files that you can’t afford to lose or that would be difficult to replace: documents, bookmark files, address books, important E-mail, etc.
Precaution:
1. Before using the floppy disk of others, check the disk whether it is virus free or not.
2. Do not use the computer unless the viruses are totally removed from the infected computer.
3. Do not use pirated software.
4. Do not let anyone to use your computer.
5. Lock the computer when not in use.
6. Lock you computer system with psssword.
7. Never run you anti-virus software, while the memory is infected by the virus, because the virus active in memory transfer that virus into your anti-virus software and your program may not able to work.
8. Don’t be confirm that all the anti-virus sotware can remove viruses, it depends up on the infected fileor boot sector virus(es), which may be active for long time. If the virus is active and you have been using it for long time then there is less possibility of removing the virus.
9. Always boot from write protected bootable diskette so that the bootable diskette itself doesn’t catch virus.
10. Never allow floppy disc brought from outside to be used directly on PC without checking tha floppy for virus presence.
11. Be careful while checking mail having attached documents.
12. Keep all original EXE and COM files in a write-protected floppy.
13. If COM and EXE files are required to be copied anywhere, copy only from written-protected original floppy.
14. In case the system is ‘hanging’ (or floating), the reason could be Virus. Check for virus.
15. Avoid playing computer games on a computer where important data is stored as it is generally noticed that the virus spreads faster through game floppies.
16. Install any one anti-virus program i.e. NAV, McAfee etc. and update it regularly.
