Anti-Virus Tips If you are always cautious, you can prevent unexpected incidents of security breaches though viruses or worms. The preventive methods for different malicious programs are different in individual cases but the following statements describe the general rules to prevent viruses. Protect your network with virus protection tips provided by PCSecurityShield.

Using computer virus vaccines is a must.
A virus is dangerous for itself. But more and more people use viruses as a hacking tool to attack other unsuspecting users systems. So you should always use the latest engine to proactively prevent viruses that are the sources of trouble. Especially one of the functions in the vaccine program that makes it possible to check whether e-mail attachments are infected or not is a sure way to prevent spreading viruses through e-mail.

Check if security patch programs are installed.
The recent trends about viruses or hacking with viruses are to attack security holes of various operating systems. In fact, periodic installation of patch programs will assure you a higher chance of preventing malicious programs; even through you are not using vaccine programs.
Always check the information provided by companies for your software, and keep up with the dates for the latest version of patch.

Check the level of folder sharing.
In a corporate environment, people share their data through a LAN. The recent viruses have the capability to spread through Read/ Write shared folders on a network, Minimize the use of shared folders. And if you have to share your information with others, always enable the "Read Only" and set a password to your system. When the data transmission is completed, disable the shared function to prevent attacks from viruses or intrusions of malicious hackers.

Always be cautious when opening an e-mail message.
E-mail is the fastest means to spread various harmful programs to the majority of people. So always be cautious when opening e-mail messages, even the ones from your friends. Especially if you receive e-mail messages with English header or body (in Korea), scan the message first with a vaccine program without opening an attachment. Many viruses can be infected even though you can only preview the messages. Disable the "Preview" function in the configuration of Outlook Express. The solution to this is to download and install security patches from Microsoft. .

Establish the mind-set for virus protection.
There are more traditional and basic virus prevention rules. Those include 'always use legal copy', 'start a new program after scanning it with the latest vaccine if you download from PC communications', 'do not open e-mail attachments', 'do not open macros that you do not create' These rules are so basic these days, people think of these as standard procedures for using computers.
Security companies, including virus vaccine companies provide information about viruses or harmful programs through their homepages in real time. Visit their homepages often or receive e-mail newsletters from these companies to have virus related information in advance.

Of course, these rules do not guarantee 100% protection from malicious programs.
It is not a short term, but a long term commitment to protect your system from viruses. You need to have the will to protect your precious information by yourself. As we need to keep our bodies and souls clean to prevent diseases, we need to keep our computers healthy to prevent damages and information loses.

Thanks to Hauri for these Antivirus Tips.  ¶ 6:42 AM