Computer Virus And How To Avoid Them

 Almost every customer that comes in with a computer infected with viruses, spyware, adware and malware asks why did I get infected. Well most customers assume that because they have some antivirus program on their computer such as Mcafee, Norton, Kaspersky or Webroot or any pc virus software they should not get infected. They constantly ask why did the antivirus software not protect me. Well the answer is fairly simple.
 The answer to the customers question is that no computer virus software is 100% at keeping away viruses. The sneaky person who writes the virus can and usually are ahead of the people that create the antivirus software. The antivirus software does not recognize it as a threat and therefore does not stop it. The virus gets in to your computer and does whatever dirty work it is supposed to do. You have the possibility of losing everything and that can be quite costly.
 Okay so what antivirus software is the best one to use. Well the problem is that when you visit a website you may find that the one they are promoting is to them the best. For example if they are trying to sell Norton Antivirus or Kaspersky it will be the top rated. I myself like Kaspersky and Webroot as well as paid Avast and AVG. They all seem to do a good job and I run them with the exception of Kaspersky. I like it due to hearing many customers saying how well it has worked for them. As far as Mcafee goes I hear that fairly soon they will be going out of business, so I would avoid purchasing it.

       
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 The CryptoLocker is still around in 2016 as well as the CryptoWall and there are other viruses that will encrypt your hard drive resulting in the loss of all your data.

    So if no antivirus software is 100% effective, then what are we supposed to do. Well the first thing you should do is make sure your system is backed up either to a external hard drive or to the cloud with something such as carbonite. If you are using an external hard drive make sure it's only connected when it's performing the back up, then disconnect it when it's done. That way if your computer becomes infected your back up is safe.
 So what other things should we all do to protect our computers from all kinds of infections. The first thing is make sure your antivirus software is up to date and not expired. So many customers don't realize this and their computers go unprotected for months and I even seen a few for a couple of years. Second I would use some programs such as free or paid Malwarebytes and Spybot. Both of these are excellent programs. Just remember the free malwarebytes is manual and does not run in the background by itself. Another good program is super anti-spyware and it does run in the background.
 Some other important things to remember are dealing with email and with downloading programs off the internet. The best thing with your email is if you don't know where it is from, don't open it. Usually when something looks good it's not. I would also make sure that the preview reading pane in programs such as Microsoft outlook and windows live mail are not set to open the first email in the inbox list or any list. If it is infected and opens your the lucky winner and not in a good way. The next thin is if you are downloading a program check it out before you download it. I like to use google and search the internet for any problems with the suspicious program. You may find forums where someone has had a bad experience with it. The next problem is when you are installing any program off the internet watch the fine print. Alot of the time people will try and install other junk and malicious programs with it. Usually there are small check boxes that you can uncheck. I have been bitten by that one myself.
 Just remember it's better to be safe then sorry so stay protected.