Is Your Antivirus Enough For the Protection of Your PC
According to change in time antivirus definitions are also changing. Antivirus is meant to be the safeguard of your computer’s security and protection of your data from the various dangerous viruses. But it doesn’t end your trouble here. Malwares nowadays spreads very fast. Sometimes some of these malware sneak in even before antivirus software has updated its malware signature database. Therefore 100% protection from viruses cannot be guaranteed. Keeping other security programs as an alternative is therefore good.
Antivirus software comes with free version and paid version as well. An advanced anti-malware starts interfering with your operating system and browsers. It makes changes in your computer’s security system which exposes your data and files to some extent. As cyber crimes are increasingly growing, in that case we also need to show extra care for the computer’s safety and shall plan for a successful strategy to make things out.
Following are the reasons for which you must look beyond anti-virus software as a security strategy:
• Internet has definitely made our lives easier but with increase in comfort malware attacks have also increased. Now they have developed multiple ways to enter into your computer system and breach its security.
• While antivirus do its job by running on the background, together you also need to take care of some safety measures which you should adopt while working on the internet so as to avoid giving a virus path to enter into your computer system.
• Another option you could have is using Microsoft security essentials, which gives you best protection and fight with various threats keeping your system secure all the time.
• Instead, run Microsoft Security Essentials regularly and run your secondary option manually—with Microsoft Security Essentials turned off—once a week.
• Also you should not link your personal accounts, such as Facebook or Google+, to your banking or corporate accounts that have sensitive data. If one of the personal accounts gets hacked, all the linked accounts are potentially compromised.
• Open Wi-Fi is an open invitation to unknown to interfere into your system, so avoid utilizing open Wi-Fi and review potential Wi-Fi access points carefully before signing onto them.
• Always keep your operating system antivirus software and browsers updated to the latest versions. It is good to use a modern operating system like windows 10, windows 8.1 or windows 7 to protect your computer against online threats. Security software offers an additional layer of protection against malware.
• Most malwares are easy to get on your system due to user actions and lack of knowledge about phishing websites or other malicious threats or not paying attention to the prompt notifications given by your computer.
• If you are downloading any file or software, you must download it only from their official home pages or from safe websites and take caution while you install them.
• Instead of using single security system approach you should follow multiple security strategies for your computer system.