Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Easiest Way To Protect Your Church From A Computer Virus

The best way you can assure your church is protected from computer viruses is to acquire reliable Virus, Spyware, and Adware protection software. While there are a lot of different options out there we have researched and discovered the very best options for protecting your church's files. You can find our recommended software on the links below. We have also published further information about protecting your church online and church data security in the articles below.


1) Spyware Stop - This is our #1 recommended software for virus protection. It offers users comprehensive protection for emails, instant messages and other files by automatically removing viruses. It also has a built in ability to detect and remove threats such as Spyware, Adware, and Malware threats which slow your computer way down. This software is perfect for protecting your computer from malicious attacks.

2) Virus Scan - This software is great for protecting your PC and sensitive information from the latest viruses. Virus Scan is a software that offers virus detection and removal as well as Spyware and Adware removal. We chose this program because of its easy to use interface. In just a few simple clicks your are able to scan the files on your PC determine if there is virus infection present and remove it.

3) EAZ-FIX - This software provides most of what the ones above offer, but cost a little less. It is ideal for small churches that are on a budget. Along with the virus protection features it offers some unique operations such as protection against operating system failure, system resource utilization, remote and local management and more.


Here is a video showing what a virus does your computer:
How A Computer Virus Attacks Your Computer


10 Ways To Improve Church Virus Protection:

1. Install reliable anti-virus software (this is the best way to prevent viruses)

2. Never automatically open email attachments. Many times hackers will send a virus via email. All you have to do is open this email and your are infected

3. Scan all incoming email attachments before opening them. Anti-Virus protection will be able to alert you if any suspicious code exist within the attachment that could endanger your church data security

4. Configure anti-virus software to automatically boot when you start you computer. This works well because you will never forget to turn on the ant-virus software.

5. Update your anti-virus software frequently. By doing this church is assured protection from new viruses that arise.

6. Do not download programs from the Web from sites that you do not trust especially freeware or shareware sites, which are notorious for containing malicious scripts.

7. Do not boot with a disk in the drive. If the computer is booted with a disk in the drive it will automatically loads the disk. If the disk is infected it will load on to the computer without the option to scan it.

8. Do not share disk or usb memory drives. You do not know what or where the other person has been downloading from and you may get exposed.

9. You should always scan disks before using them. Anti-virus software will be able to determine whether or not a disk has been infected or not and in most cases remove the files that are corrupt.

10. Use common sense when using the internet. If you feel there is something wrong with a site or receive an email from someone you are not sure of their intent then chances are something is not right.


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