Using a Virus Guard Effectively


by Gijo George - Date: 2006-12-06 - Word Count: 325 Share This!

Virus guard is a special software program written to track and trap the virus programs and permanently destroy the viruses. There are many categories of viruses, which affect your computer system. There are viruses, which attack your system, steal your personal data (Trojan viruses), make the system unusable and so on. These viruses are intelligent programs written by intelligent people with various objectives. New computer viruses are spreading across the world and you need virus guard programs to prevent them.

Once a good virus guard is installed in your system, you can relax. These virus guard programs are trained to catch any virus kind of programs and inform the user about the infection.

Do the following maintenance on your system periodically.

Run the virus scanning once in a month. Turn on the Real time protection feature that comes along with the virus guard program. If you are using Internet, you must turn on this feature. When you turn-on this feature, it constantly look for new viruses that comes to your system. Do live-update regularly. As the new viruses are being generated regularly, you need to feed your virus guard program with the fresh information about the new viruses. All the virus guard programs enable the user to update their virus with a live-update option. Once you do this, your virus definition file will be updated with new virus patterns. If you find a new virus and if the program is not able to remove it, you can submit the information about the new virus to the company from whom you bought the software. Upon receiving this information they can help you to remove the virus. Virus guard software comes with this feature to submit the virus information to the company. Remember, there are lots of harmful computer viruses around the world. If you install a powerful virus guard in your system, you can limit the number of virus attacks to certain extent.

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