Last two days I had battled against some virus on my laptop and PC and I am feeling really sad and embarrassed to admit that I finally lost the battle. I had to format both my C drive and re-install everything! Well, I may not have lost any data, but it wasted four hours of my time. And I will be suffering for next few days as many small utility software which I had installed over the period of time, will no longer be there and I will have to download and install them when ever I require them, all over again.
I think my virus came from an email attachement and now a days maximum virus infection on laptop of PC is by Email.
So, I thought of listing a simple easy to follow guidelines for avoiding virus on a PC or laptop which run on Windows Operating System from Email:-
1. Avoid opening attachments from unknown sender ID. One should be specially allergic to attachment files with extension : .SCR, .BAT, .VBS, .EXE, .LNK, .PIF, .COM, .HTML, .PHP.
2. Always scan incoming attachement even if the sender ID is known. Your know person may have virus on his laptop or PC.
3. Always back up your important files on separate device drives, like USB Drive, USB HDD. Avoid keeping any data on C Drive. C Drive may need to be formatted many times over!
4. Not all virus can be cleaned or removed. So, prevention is better, always.
5. Keep clearing browser Cache, History, Cookies and offline downloaded data.
6. Don’t ever use CDs, DVDs, USB Token or Disks without first scanning them for virus and spyware. Even if you lend someone your Pen Drives/USB Drives, scan it when returned.
7. Do not download files from warez sites or any suspicious sites.
I hope these trips will help me as well as others.
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