Virus Alert

Keep your computers Safe! 

As we all know the Internet has a vast amount of information and enables the user to work wonders, it has its dark side as well. I am sure everyone knows there are viruses all over the internet. Those of you in our class would have seen the presentation that my group gave on the dark side of the internet. The example was Felicia's video whereby an anonymous user send her a virus file. 

So what then are viruses ? It is a computer program t

hat can copy itself and infect another persons computer. A virus may increase its spread to other computers if it is able to infect files that are from the network file system. 

Viruses are commonly referred to certain types of malware, adware or spyware that are mostly spams that you find in your inbox. Another 2 common files are Worms and Trojan files that are slightly different from viruses. A worm usually g

oes through security vulnerabilities and is able to infect other computers without needi

ng a host to send them. The Trojan horse may

 perform malicious functions that allows unauthorized access to your computer and hence increases the chance of risk to your computer. 

An image that you may see if your computer is as risk.

What preventive measures can we take to ensure that such viruses or spams do not enter our computer. It is recommended that every computer have an anti-virus software to prevent such viruses from entering your computer. The benefits of anti-virus files

 is that some programs are able to do an "on access scan". What it does is that it scans opened files in addition to send and receive emails. Should there be a virus threat, it would remove it or fix the problem.

Well what if the virus has already infected your computer. The best solution will be to reformat the whole computer although there are still ways to recover your computer depending on how seriously affected it is. 

Therefore, the seriousness of viruses on your computers could prove fatal. So start getting those anti-virus and security programs now if you haven't don't so to prevent your computer from getting any further risk of viruses or spam mails. TAKE SAFETY MEASURES AT ALL TIMES!

Play safe