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Understanding malware and viruses, how this junk gets on your computer, and avoiding infections.


© Author: Neil Patterson -- 8/19/2015 9:46 pm - Views: 2712

Viruses & Virus myths are rampant these days, especially with everyone on email and cruising the web from their workstations. And today, Viruses don't come from infected floppies, they come from innocent looking email, a friends usb key or directly thru your browser from an infected website. There are some things you can do however.

Most importantly, get a good Anti-Virus scanner, install it and update it frequently! We at Expertek stand behind AVG AntiVirus, for several reasons, most importantly is that the current version auto-updates itself and also scans every folder, program and document you open or look at, including files as they're being downloaded, from whatever source. We support it, in our local market.

EVEN IF YOU DON'T USE AVG,
GET SOMETHING AND KEEP IT UPDATED.

Don't open suspicious email without a good virus scanner in place and updated. Many of the WORM viruses today mail themselves to unsuspecting friends from your address book, so even mail from your long time friends may potentially carry an infected payload - When in doubt, email or call your friend to confirm that they intended to send you the email in question.

Virus myths are not always easy to understand, but generally if the message states that you need to warn everyone you know, it is a myth. The best place on the web to get info on virus myths is Vmyths.com. (Other Myths and urban legends choke Email Servers and Network Traffic - Check them out on Snopes.com.)

A good place to check out details on certain threats is Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC). If you need to find info on what a virus does, how to clean it, and stop it from happening again, all of this and more is on their site. We also really like BleepingComputer.com

Here are some virus terms that can help you to understand the nature of the type of virus you may be dealing with:

Here are some helpful Malware Terms and concepts to be familiar with.

Here are two FREE Anti-Virus Programs: (these are well known not to contain Malware, and to also be very effective)

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