Through this article I would like to share with you 4 easy steps that you can do to protect your computer from viruses. I don’t say these steps will give you 100% security, but at least it will minimize the risk of malaware threat to your computer. With the dramatically increasing of malware attacks in the last few months, as all web security firms has reported, we should be prepared and do the best to protect our computer from viruses.

Malware creators attack your computer by using vulnerabilities in the application and software in your computer. By keeping your software updated you will minimize the chance of those attacks. Your software vendor will give free update as soon as they found any vulnerability in their software and application. 

It is almost impossible to protect your computer without any antivirus or antimalware software. Almost all windows anti malware and antivirus software are using signature based detection system. You just have to make sure that the virus signature database is always updated. Some good antimalware software will update their signature database several times a day. With this, we can rest assure that 99% of the malware attack will be detected. 
 
It is well known that no place in the internet that is 100% safe
Even Google is not safe. Recent findings show that Google image search is one of the most dangerous activities in the internet. I also find out that some malware has been infecting users from Amazone S3 (Simple Storage Service) site. There is no way out here, you need antimalware software which can protect you or advice you to stay away from some phony websites.

After we use signature based detection antivirus still it only gives 99% security protection. Because new malware is created every half second, the signature based detection antivirus cannot keep up with the database update. There are chances that new malware will infect your computer while it is not on the virus signature database yet. Therefore behavior blocker software is a must. Behavior blocker is a function that is independent from signature based database. This feature will recognize malware threat from its behavior while accessing some system function in your computers. It will block all access to the suspected file or program until it is clear whether or not the file or the program is a threat. 

You can do step one regularly. For step two to step four, you will need good windows anti malware software. You don’t have to buy expensive antimalware software. There are cheap anti virus protection software which gives you all three features I mentioned above. I have nothing against free antivirus software, but even the best free malware removal software can only give you scan and delete function. I think with just a price of one dinner you can save a lot of valuable time effort and money for one whole year. So let’s be wise and be safe.

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