Techobot » Anti virus http://www.hanoimaytinh.com Advanced technology NEWS and UPDATES! Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:34:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Why Do I Still Get Viruses & Anti-Virus Software? http://www.hanoimaytinh.com/why-do-i-still-get-viruses-anti-virus-software/ http://www.hanoimaytinh.com/why-do-i-still-get-viruses-anti-virus-software/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 09:27:21 +0000 http://www.hanoimaytinh.com/?p=41 Most everyone who owns a computer knows about viruses. Years ago, viruses were more of an annoyance than anything. But as time passed those who develop viruses became more astute at their trade and started developing viruses with malicious intent.
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It’s amazing that we regularly find computers without any anti-virus protection at all. Typically, those who do not, find out rather quickly how important virus protection is. In addition to the many computers we find without virus protection, we find many computers do not have the anti-virus software configured and running properly to protect them from even the most basic type of infection.

Your system can become unstable and exhibit unexpected behavior;
The security of your system becomes compromised;
It could lead to the unauthorized access of your computer;
Beware programs and software in pretty packages (for free usually). Remember what happen to the Trojan’s of Greek Mythology!

Configure you anti-virus software to check for virus pattern updates on a frequent basis. Checking once a week is probably not good enough. At the very least, configure it to check at least once a day. Our systems check more frequently than that;

Make sure your anti-virus software is configured to perform a scheduled scan of your computer. Many people rely on the “real-time” scanning which is suppose to catch viruses in real-time as you select and open files. This is not 100% accurate and nothing substitutes for a thorough manual scan of “all” your system files
Don’t rely on anti-virus software alone. Make sure that you are using some sort of anti ad-ware and spy-ware software. These programs can catch a plethora of malicious software that your anti-virus software may miss.

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