How to protect your computer

Fortunately, there are steps that you can take in order to protect your computer from viruses. Among the steps that you can take are:

• The simplest way to avoid a virus is to install a legitimate and effective antivirus program in you computer. The antivirus program is designed to look out for any kind of activity that could be seen as similar to a virus attack or infestation and it automatically stops it.

• You can opt to use a more secure operating system in your computer. For example, Unix is a secure operating system because the security features built into it prevents a virus from actually doing what is programmed to do.