How to Prevent Malicious attack or Viruses

Virus Alert

Computer viruses can be prevented at the very first level which is the user side. Today and for the near future computer internet users are growing rapidly, there are billions of users everyday browsing the internet, chatting, and using some social networking sites, with that being said, people now a days are relying all information from the internet, with out knowing that some users also are fan of making some foolishness on the internet which is spreading some viruses or sometimes gathering personal information.

Viruses can be prevented, here are some tips.

• Be sure that your operating system and other applications are licensed. In this way you can update your application at anytime with out any concern.
• Install trusted and license anti virus application, and frequently update the virus definition.
• Frequently update your operating system especially if you are using Microsoft products.
• Hide or do not share your personal information on the internet or you can limit only to those persons that you personally trusted.
• Do not open nor downloads information coming from popup messages this might contain malicious software or virus.
• Downloads information only from well known and trusted sites.
• Be sure to scan any devices such as usb storage devices or the likes before copying or transferring the content in your PC.
• Scan your PC regularly, in this way you can be sure that your PC is efficiently running.

Information above can be done on the user level, meaning you are responsible of maintaining you own personal PC. I would recommend that you should use Microsoft Security Essential I already tested this Anti Virus software for a long time and its good.