10 ways to catch a Computer Virus
During our virus removal process, customers will quiz us on how they caught this computer virus. The answer to the computer virus is interesting! Here are 10 computer virus vulnerabilities.
1. Mass Email lists · Friends · Myspace · Facebook:
Once one of our friends puts us on a mass mailing list. All bets are off! These lists are prime for hackers. This is their “honey pot.” Avoid list if you don’t want to have a virus attack.
2. Antivirus Software: Real Time Scan is not active:
We see it all the time. Symantec, Trend, McAfee real time computer antivirus scanner has been disabled. We understand that some antivirus software will make your PC run very slow. They will disable their malware protector, because XP / Vista is running very slow almost as if the computer is stuck. You know that feeling where no program will respond or responds slowly.
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3. Antivirus Software has no Scheduled Computer Virus Scan:
Virus Scans will make your PC run very slow. Most users don’t like leaving their PC on all the time. Is there ever a perfect time to schedule or run a virus scan? TechnoKOZ recommends scheduling a “daily” virus scan at night around 1:00 a.m., when nobody is using your computer. Why do we recommend every night? You just pick the night to leave your computer on. During the night, the scan will run and your computer can perform automatic security updates. You don’t have to leave your PC powered on every night. We recommend once a week to avoid a computer virus like one of these nasty fake virus pop up, run it once a week.
4. Inferior Computer Antivirus software:
Just because your cable provider such as Cox, Comcast recommends or provide computer antivirus software such as McAfee, it does not mean it is the best rated program. We also recommend avoiding Norton and AVG.
5. Bad Email with Bad links:
The infamous long lost friend, colleague, coworker email. Ever got a message from a friend that says “Check this out”. If you are truly interested in the web link. The Nigeria money scam. View it on your iPhone, Droid, or Blackberry.
6. Web Search – hacked web site: for Las Vegas, Costco, Royal Wedding, etc.:
These high impacting search terms are riddled with hacked web sites. Hackers are clever and will target and infect these web sites with bad code. Your browser will end up on a fake web page in the end.
7. Download Free Registry Cleaning software & Free Disk Tool:
These Defragger programs and registry cleanup programs. Avoid 99.9% at all cost. They will only infect your PC.
8. Download Ring tones, music:
Free Ring and Ring tones, Music are risky too!
9. P2P Download Site(Peer – Torrent Download sites):
These Peer-Peer software programs are backdoor for hackers to steal all of your data. Uninstall them!
10. Applications Plug-ins:
Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, IE (Internet Explore), Windows Updates, Windows Security updates, Quicktime, iTunes. All software need to be updated periodically to fix security issues.
Computer Virus lessons learned!
Remember these 10 ways to avoid a computer virus.
