Protect Laptops from virus attacks

Laptops are designed to support mobility is actually more vulnerable to viruses, because most laptops are now equipped with WiFi, the ease of internet connection that makes the laptop quite susceptible to virus attacks.

To clean a laptop from a virus infection is not as easy to clean a virus that attacks the PC desktop. For example if the PC desktop is infected with a virus and if severe enough antivirus installed on a PC is not able, usually off the hard drive and slave to it on a clean computer to be scanned. But these steps are not easy for laptops, because to take the hard drive in the laptop is not easy, even causing loss guarantee.

There are many ways for a virus scan on my laptop which had already infected with the virus, could be a way to share a laptop to scan the computer / laptop that is clean and always have updated antivirus. Or if you have an external hard drive prior to backup your data and then restore your laptop ghost file, then install antivirus, and do not forget to update your antivirus with the latest updatean, only then scan your data back.

Symptoms that arise in an infected laptop that has virus or spyware, is now turned on takes a long time to load. By the time used to work all the processes to be heavy and slow, as if the laptop’s performance decreased drastically. And when the laptop is connected to the internet, some sites inaccessible, can also always be directed to other sites that are not clear, the ads appear on the screen all of a sudden, could also emerge many pop-ups that guns are clear and very disturbing and degrade performance laptop itself.

Like the saying “to protect it better than cure”, so the laptop should be protected from virus attack than to cure?

If your laptop often interact with the virtual world, then the thousands of viruses likely will try to enter the laptop system. Indeed facilitate the spread of Internet viruses, especially today, a virus was able to spread itself to all existing computer networks in the real world in a matter of seconds.

There are several steps to anticipate the virus attack. Anticipation is to prevent virus entry and infect your system.

1. Use a good antivirus and reliable. You can use the antivirus which is available free on the internet. Or reply is still doubtful with a free antivirus, can also use a paid antivirus.
2. When using paid antivirus, you should make sure that the antivirus has a representative in each country, This is quite important when there is a problem in his antivirus. Even anti-virus that has representatives in each country will be faster to update if there is a local virus attacks.
3. Make sure the operating system you use is always in a state update. Because the reality is always security holes discovered by hackers or virus creator itself. That’s what causes why the operating system should always be in a state update. Besides securing of a virus attack, operating system update will also make a laptop running in a stable condition.
4. Perform regular data backup. This will prevent you from losing important data when your laptop is still infected with the virus. If you frequently use a floppy, flash, external hard drive, the computer / laptop that is used by many people, always remember to do antivirus scanning on the storage media before you run it on your favorite laptop.
5. Beware of attachments / email attachment. Until now, an email attachment is the tool most preferred by virus makers to spread the virus product. Besides easy to deceive recipients, spread via email attachments are also going very fast. Do not ever open an email attachment before scanning with antivirus programs, even though the email came from your friend though.
6. Be careful when downloading free programs that are offered on the Internet. Always download from trusted sites based on review of many people. Perform scanning the installer program installed on your computer before.
7. While browsing, you should be wary of websites or distributed via the link messenger program.