Computer viruses have been with us for several decades now and there is no sign that they are letting up. Many people are still confused regarding their origin and why they are still around. All of us would certainly like to see governmental regulation stepped up so as to eliminate this threat. In advance of those developments all that anyone can do to be safe is to institute a more safe way of running our PCs and that is the subject of this article.
Once it became obvious that the threat of viruses was real, people began to heed advice and become much more informed users. That ushered in a period of widespread virus protection software installations and software companies had a field day. Then, talk began to circulate that many people still had major problems with viruses. The problem was that people were simply installing virus protection software and forgetting it. It is clear now that it takes a more security-centric view of the whole environment not just installing a package in order to be protected. It takes a security-sensitive level of awareness and revised operating tactics to really be successful.
What this means is basically going beyond simply installing virus protection and becoming highly sensitive to day-to-day activities that can produce virus exposure. Here are the things you should begin to institute immediately to protect yourself from viruses.
Work very closely with your security package and review its recommendations closely. As an example, review closely any request by your security software that announces that unknown software is requesting permission to launch. If you fail to do this actively you are basically defeating the purpose of the virus security package - and you will have wasted money and reduced your security. Your software security programs can only identify these errant programs - it is up to you to avoid their usage.
Make sure that your virus protection software is from a reputable vendor. There are many ways to determine if the vendor is reputable. The best is to reference known software reviewers and magazines. Make sure that you run this software in the background and open at all times. Also, make sure that all its updates are current.
Installing a firewall is the next thing you can do. The details of this can be found in our other articles on this subject. Firewalls are software barriers that greatly increase protection although they do affect convenience.
Finally, set and keep your online browser security settings to maximum. This will also reduce the exposure to adware.
Finally, keep a clean and updated Windows System Registry. You can get quality registry software that scans, deletes and replaces invalid codes and does other registry fix functions that will help you with your Registry Repair.
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Author Resource:-> James Roberts is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to use registry software and best ways to fix registry that work fast!
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