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Virus
Info and Computer Maintenance
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Target Audience: All Computer Users
If you take good care of your computer, chances are,
it will take good care of you. Here are a few things you can do
to be sure your computer will be in tiptop form. Take a few
moments to explore the links below. The time you spend now could save
you valuable time in the future.
Computer
Survival Tips
At
some point, computer users seem to develop their own "level
of paranoia"
for working on a computer. Eventually you will lose some piece
of data, document or file that you really need. And it will probably
happen at the worst possible time. So what's a computer user to
do? The answer is to develop some good habits for using your computer.
Some excellent computer survival tips include the following:
- Keep
backup copies of data files/folders. On a regular basis, such
as once a week, you should copy important files/folders from
your hard drive onto either floppy, CD or Zip disk. That way,
if your hard drive fails, you'll be able to recover and only
lose, at most, one week of data.
- Be
careful opening e-mail attachments. If you don't know who sent
the attachment, don't open it. But even if you do know who sent
the attachment, make sure that person meant to send you something.
Many viruses can appear like they came from people you know.
If the attachment has a double extension (e.g., "filename.mp3.vbs"),
don't open it. If the attachment ends in .EXE, .COM, .VBS, or
.BAT, don't open it. In short, don't open any attachments unless
you are absolutely sure what it is you are opening.
- Don't
save original copies of your work on floppy disk. You should use
your hard drive for original work. Use floppies as backup copies
or for transporting data to another computer.
- Use
an antivirus program and update it regularly. This type of
program, if kept current, will protect your computer from
viruses that can damage your hard drive or data files. Some
common sources for contracting a virus include Internet downloads,
floppy disks and e-mail attachments. Check our Virus Alert
Info for up-to-the-minute virus news, alerts and info.
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