How to Protect Your Computer from Viruses
Is your computer safe? Could you be doing more to protect your computer? Is your system vulnerable to viruses?
Viruses are a total nuisance. Viruses may just slow down your computer, but they can also tamper with your data, and even shut down your computer entirely. Here are 5 ways you can protect yourself from computer viruses.
1. Make sure you install a good anti-virus program and update it often. Hackers develop new ways to infect computers on a daily basis, so if your anti-virus program isn’t current, it won’t protect you from new threats. If you have any question about which anti-virus software is best for you, just use TalkLocal, the best way to get computer help locally.
2. Don’t open attachments on emails from people you don’t know—these attachments can give a virus access to your system.
3. Be cautious about opening all attachments, even from people you know. Don’t open an attachment if the subject or content of the email seems fishy. If the person’s email account has been hacked, it’s likely that the hacker that infected them is trying to infect you too.
4. Only download software from reputable, trust-worthy websites. Online downloads can be Trojan horses for viruses.
5. Make sure to back up your data often on an external drive of some sort. This way, your files are safe even if your computer does get infected.
These tips are good general rules to live by, but they by no means constitute a foolproof way to keep your computer virus free. Hackers are smart, and even if you follow all of these tips you may still have a virus. If that happens just use TalkLocal—the easiest way to find local computer repair.
