Digital infection: Virus and Trojan

The biggest danger to your computer remains virus
and Trojan horse (or in short-called Trojan). Of
nature, programs of this small breed and
spread wide on the computer network and media
storage such as hard disks, floppy disks, and CD ROM.
With the Internet, the danger brought by the program -
this program is to increase global scale, given the
and Trojan viruses can spread to the whole world only
in a few hours only. A PC that is used
to the sharing of data, if only through the data transfer,
network, or the Internet, should be given protection
adequate against viruses and Trojan.
Protection Against Viruses
In practice, there are two options for dealing
virus infection:
• Business prevention (prophylaxis) unatu protect
so that the computer is not infected with the virus.
• If the infection has occurred, then the best way is
isolate the infection and clean the PC
concerned as soon as possible.
In prevention efforts need to realize that one PC
can be infected with the virus during the data transfer. Potential
the danger came from:
• The use of storage media: floppy disks, CD ROMs, and
Zip drives. You are responsible directly above
the use of storage media.
• If your PC is connected via the network (eg Internet)
PC to the other, the danger can come from the other side. Download
the software can cause you to catch the
viruses; other parties can also use the connection
network to place the program on your PC.
• Other people use your PC can lead to
danger, whether intentionally or not.
Virus Scanner
Although you are very careful, you must
selalau using the latest virus scanner to check for
the virus. It is possible in a while
you negligent in applying the principle of prudence.
In addition to commercial antivirus software such as Norton Anti Virus 2002,
McAffee, and PC Cillin, there are also anti-virus freeware
that does not lose the ability to protect you
against the virus. There are two freeware antivirus software that is
well, which also equipped the service to update virus
latest:
• AntiVir
• AVG AntiVirus