Monday, April 17, 2006

Avoiding Computer Viruses, by Baagii

Computer viruses are a growing problem for people trying to use computers in the office, home, school, work, or elsewhere. Most viruses come from using the Internet and they damage computers. Also, viruses break the systems and stop proper functions. Day by day, the ability of viruses and the ability of antivirus software are increasing. People who are new to computers do not know how to secure their computers from viruses, and then they sometimes have their computer infected. The three best solutions for preventing computer viruses are to get new versions of antivirus programs, to update your computer daily, and to install a pop-up blocker on the computer.

The first solution, getting a new version of antivirus programs, is necessary to protect your computer from viruses because virus creators have designed their viruses to infect the old versions of software. Therefore, new versions are important and have a lot of benefits. There are many different kinds of software. For example: Norton Antivirus 2006 /NAV/, McAfee 2006, EzTrust Antivirus, Panda Antivirus software, etc. Most people use Norton Antivirus 2006 now. NAV 2006 includes Antivirus protection, a firewall, and Anti-Spyware, which is powerful and has specific scanning abilities.

A second solution to computer viruses is to update your computer daily. Antivirus programs are updated almost every day. If you download an update of an antivirus program, it means you have installed new tools, files, and protections. If you do not download or install a new update, computer viruses could infect your computer. For example; if you updated your computer on March 13, 2006, and one kind of Virus named “I love you” was created on that day, but today is March 15, 2006, then that “I love you” virus can infect your computer. Therefore, updating is necessary.

When you use the Internet to visit any dangerous websites, a pop-up blocker can protect and eliminate dangerous problems, such as viruses, sexual advertisements, troublesome errors, etc. Consequently, almost all computers should have pop-up blockers. It is one good solution and shields against computer viruses. Most antivirus programs have pop-up blockers as part of their program. However, most of the pop-up blockers are not the best protection. This is because 90-95% of antivirus programs are work to protect the computer from viruses from internet, disks, CDs, connections, etc. Then pop-up blockers are work on their responsibility means protect from eliminate dangerous problems, such as viruses, sexual advertisements, troublesome errors, etc. The popular pop-up blockers are XoftSpy, NoAdware, Spyware Nuker, and Spy Ferret.

If computers have these solutions, old and new viruses cannot infect your computer. First of all, you need to have a good antivirus program, then you should download or install new updates every day, and finally you should have the best or most popular pop-up blockers. Antivirus programs are the most important defenders of computers. Antivirus programs must be updated daily because viruses develop daily. A pop-up blocker is an important part of an antivirus program, protecting from dangerous problems, viruses, sexual advertisements, etc. These three solutions should fix your problem.

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