how to protect my system from Virus..

Viruses are not the only forms of malicious code that may invade your system. Worms, Trojans, adware, spyware, key loggers together with viruses form part of malware running in the wild that may seriously harm your system and your data while also hogging system resources, reducing PC performance and Internet bandwidth. Here are seven ways of protecting yourself against malware.


Today, security threats come in all shapes and sizes and from a variety of sources including software downloads, peer-to-peer networks (e.g., Kazaa), floppies, CD or DVDs, emails and their attachments, chat rooms, your colleagues on the network and the Internet in general.

Few ways to protect your system from Viruses.


1. After installing the clean OS into your system, Install good Antivirus ( use lincesed one), because trail antivirus may some time create a space to infect your systems.
2. Connect system to the Internet and Update Security patches based on your OS and Update Antivirus patch also and intall all the application you need.
3. After that better take a backup of your system once after all installation updation done. It may usefull later and save time to recover and do all the thing from start.
4. Don't reuse disks that have been in other computers, don't download files from insecure sites, and don't open e-mail attachments unless you are expecting them. Be wary of messages and attachments, even from people you know, with vague subject lines and contents, such as 'Check this' or 'See these pics!!!'
5. If u recieve an email attachment from one of your freind, first confirm from it and before opening read the complete file name of the attachment. Viruses most probably have the extension like these "school girl.avi.vbs", "hot.jpeg.bat" etc always look at the last extension.
6. When you want to use a pen drive or any usb drive, CD/DVD Drive then as soon as you connect the drive presss SHIFT key it disables AUTORUN. Now scan it from ur antivirus program.
7. If you have created setting in your email to view the emails without opening it that is on clicking one of the email its preview is enabled then also disable it, because it also harms ur computer.
8. Secure your Wireless network.
9. Regurally update your system with windows update and Antivirus.