ANTI-VIRUS MEASURES AND WHAT OF TO WHEN A VIRUS INFECTS YOUR COMPUTER.

COMPUTER VIRUSES

Today we are looking computer viruses, therefore we have to understand what is Viruses. VIRUSES are small programs whuch hide themselves on your disks both diskettes and hard disk. Unless you use virus detection software such as webroot Secure Anywhere Anti-virus, Symantec Norton Anti-virus Basic, Bitdefender Anti-virus Plus and so many. The first time you have that you know that you have virus is when it activates. Different viruses are activated in different ways such as the use of attachments in various email messages and also via messages from instant messaging, thus you must never open unexpected email attachments unless you know and trust whoever sent the message since viruses can destroy all your data in your computer.

HOW DO VIRUSES INFECT YOURCOMPUTER OR PCs.

Viruses hide on a disk and when you access the disk either a diskettes or another hard disk over a network, the virus program will start and infect your computer. 

The worst thing about a computer virus is that it can spread from one computer to another can be via use of infected floppy disk or over a computer network.

Internet allow you to access files from all over the world and you should not never connect to the Internet unless you have a virus checking program that installed in your computer. Also you advised to keep your virus monitoring software up to date.

HOW TO PREVENT VIRUS DAMAGE.

The following below are the various ways to prevent virus damage in your computer.

• There are a number of third party anti-virus products available. The main thing about your virus checker software program should be keep up to date. Many companies supply updated disks on a regular basis or allow you to receive updates automatically via the Internet.
• To make a diskette read-only. If you using 3.5 diskette (floppy disk), there is a notch that can be opened or closed which may be used to protect the disk. But to protect the contents of the disk move the notch to open position in this you should be able to see through the hole.
• To password to protect your computer. Also you can set up power on security password on your computer or PCs. The mechanism for setting this will vary from ine computer to another and is determined by the makers of the computer rather than by the Windows until you supply the correct password. This means that no one else can  play around with your computer and in the process accidentally infect  it with a virus.

ANTI-VIRUS MEASURES AND WHAT OF TO WHEN A VIRUS INFECTS YOUR COMPUTER. 

We going start with things to do to protect your computer from virus attack as follow below:-

• Th safety when to use a computer is to connect it to a Local Area Network (LAN) or the Internet. This know as stand alone computer, providing that you do not use floppy disks on that PC which have been used in other computers.
• Unfortunately it is the ability to link or connect to other computers or indeed the Internet  which makes the modern computer so versatile and very useful.
• Also You should always make sure that all computers require an ID and password to access them. Therefore make sure all relevant SECURITY PATCHES from Microsoft have been applied.
• However You have to make sure that the password is long enough that contain mixture of number, letters and should be changed on a regular basis.
• Also You advised that do not use password relate to your persinal information or things since hackers are easy to guess. If you have a system then security often break down and computer users will sometimes keep a list of these passwords in their disk. This defeats the whole object. And if you forget your network access password the network administrator should be able to assign you with new one password.

Apart from those above ways to protest yourcomputer against attack now we going to see what of to do so as to discover a virus on your computer.

• If you discover viruses on your computer do not panic, you have to relax. If your virus checker alerts you to a virus then the chance is that it has caught virus before it imfect yourcomputer and cause damage. For example you may insert a diskettes unt your computer and virus checker software program should automatically scan the diskettes.  If the diskettes contains a virus message will be shown or displayed telling you that the diskettes are infected and it should automatically remove the virus.
• If you work within a larger company you should have a company Information Technology (IT) support group which will come and rid your computer of viruses. Be sure that you are familiar with your company's policies regarding virus.
• Running a virus checker on a machine which contains a virus is known as disinfectimg the computer as the virus program will detect, and then eliminate the virus from your computer.
• Anti-virus software can only detect types of viruses which the software know about. As such vital that you keep your anti-virus software updates so that it can detect easily and very fast new viruses which are constantly appearing.