Safeguarding Against Computer Virus

Have you ever come across a situation where you were working on the computer and the computer suddenly crashes ? Have you ever faced situations where, on inserting a floppy disk or flash disk, your computer fails to function properly? Have you ever faced situations in which , after running a software for example, your computer works slower than normal or you see unusual error messages? Have you ever come across situations in which you were unable to access the disk drives or you see distorted menus and dialog boxes? Well, if you have then your computer may have been infected by virus because these are some of the signs of a virus attack!!!

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Today I'm here to inform you all not about computer virus but how we can prevent our computers from being infected by viruses

What is a computer Virus?

A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. The original may modify the copies or the copies may modify themselves. A virus can only spread from one computer to another when its host is taken to the uninfected computer.A person might have a computer virus infection when the computer starts acting differently.These viruses may ‘corrupt' or damage various files on your computer and thus its important to protect your computer from viruses. There are ways to protect your computer from viruses.

Firstly,Antivirus Software Packages could be installed on your computer.
All computers should have some form of virus protection. This does not necessarily come standard with your computer, therefore you have to purchase virus software. Do not use free software, while many virus protection companies offer free trials it is not advisable to use these as your primary method of protection. Many people keep moving from one virus software to another to draw out the time before they had to purchase, the problem with this is you never get up to date protection. New