Fighting Viruses

Tips #  23

There may not be an infallible method to keep viruses off your computer system other than not using the email or internet connection at all.  But why not give yourself the best chance of keeping your system virus free and still use email and the internet.  You have two really good virus catchers and virus killers available to you in Norton's Antivirus software or McAfee Antivirus software.  I like to use Norton's and set it with auto-protect enabled and set it to run automatic updates without having to have an ok.  The only time you will turn the virus protection off is during computer maintenance steps of scan disk and defrag or when loading new software.  Set the program to check all files on your hard drive, not just program files and schedule it to do this thorough check once a week.   Check all files takes longer so let the computer do this "after hours" while you are doing something else.   Set it to check all incoming and outgoing email and to give you warnings if something is detected.

If your aren't running an up to date antiviral software you may already have several viruses on your system.   Save yourself a lot of misery and possibly expense by getting good software and get it up to date....... now!

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Tips by Jerry Davis  (c) 2002

TXOL Internet's Central and Southwestern Sales Representative

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