At the moment, your system is connected to a network and/or to the
Internet, you are probably benefiting from productivity- and
life-enhancing information access services. Sending and receiving emails,
chatting online with friends, surfing the Internet via web browsers, and
downloading data or program files are a few of the most common activities
that also expose systems to malicious code threats like computer viruses
and Trojans.
The power of today’s computer can as easily access useful information
as make you the dupe of viruses that hide in email attachments. It is too
easy to inadvertently trigger today’s sophisticated viruses that will
immediately mass-mail themselves out to, and infect all your friends’,
customers and colleagues’ computers. The real-world global virus
outbreaks like W97M_Melissa, VBS_Loveletter (a.k.a.
LoveBug), VBS_Fireburn,
W97M_Resume and VBS_Newlove have shown how effective malicious code
technology can be . There are more than 50,000 viruses today, new viruses
come out daily, any of them could be the next LoveBug virus!
To reduce the risk of virus infections, and of inadvertently triggering
or spreading them to other people, Cyber Sentry would like to share some
easily implemented "safe computing" practices. Put these into
effect on your machine today and they will help keep you using today’s
advanced computer information access technology without falling prey to
viruses and other malicious code!
To make your system more robust, follow these practices outlined below to
set up and configure your system. The general idea is to make it difficult
or impossible for viruses to run.
