In our last blog, we discussed five ways to protect your computer from Malware and Spyware. This blog will continue and will present the five additional steps for protecting your computer from viruses.
Disable Autorun
A lot of viruses attach themselves to a USB drive and get installed automatically upon connecting to a computer. To avoid this, make sure that you disable the Windows Autorun feature. But this should be done according to Microsoft’s recommendation, as they differ with your operating system.
Avoid opening unknown Email Attachments
We frequently hear about avoiding unknown links or attachments in an email, sometimes computer users forget this and their systems become infected! We are not aware of the source of these links and attachments and clicking on them might just mean that we are compromising our computer’s security. Viruses in these links and attachments can corrupt Windows within minutes.
Smart Surfing
Browser plug-ins, link protections and automatic pop-up blockers help protect against phishing attacks, where an attempt is being made to steal your personal and financial information. You should never enter your personal or financial information on a website unless you have manually intended to go to the page. Instead of clicking on a link from your email, enter the URL in a web browser yourself. Going to the page through the link in your email may lead you to a fake or fraudulent website and all your information can be stolen.
Firewalls
There are many instances where we disable a firewall altogether. Such instances arise when we face problems in sharing printers, access network resources etc. However, what we are not aware of is that firewalls help to protect computers from a wide variety of viruses, malicious traffic, malwares etc. To protect your computer from a virus attack, it should be secured behind a firewall.
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