How to protect our computer and reject the computer virus inbreak ?

@livelily (141)
China
May 4, 2007 10:21am CST
My computer had been attacked by virus five days ago, I took full four days to repair it , some softwares still can not run natural, that caused a lot of trouble to me. Do you tell me know know how to protect your computer and reject the computer virus inbreak ? What antigas software do you use ?
4 responses
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
9 Jun 07
I have read through the responses from other Mylotters. Here I would like to add one more. Better not install a pirated windows xp. It gets a computer easily infected.
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@livelily (141)
• China
10 Jun 07
Hehehe~~you are right, I am not using the normal window Xp, the seller installed a pirated windows system for me.
• China
11 Jun 07
I feel so bad that your comuter is not installed with an authentic XP. That's why it get infected so easily. I often have the same problem as you have. I am just wondering why it is so expensive to get an authentic one. That's why the pirated stuff has its popular market. Something must be done to the price of the authentic stuff. It is too high.
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@ronney47 (109)
• Nepal
4 May 07
I have a very good scheme to protect against viruses. I have applied it for 4 years, and not a single virus has affected my computer. Well, I am not going to tell anymore about the need to install antivirus and firewall. You need to have it first. Then, create a second user in windows who is not granted with administrator privileges. So, whenever you surf net or do anything, use this lesser privileged account. This way, virus cannot access your system folders and cannot propagate. When you want to run installation files or do administrative works, you can still do it with "RUNAS" command, still sitting in local user account. This single method can minimize chances of viral infection quite a lot.
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@livelily (141)
• China
5 May 07
Yeah, good way, maybe I can try to this, thanks for your sharing.
• Denmark
4 May 07
You are absolutely right Ronney47, that simple trick makes it a lot harder to be a computer virus.
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@windhair (498)
• Germany
4 May 07
That's so bad to have virus. The thing you have to do is install a anti-virus and anti-spyware, A firewall is also necessory. Or you can have a Linux OS which has less chance to be attacked. For me I use Zonealarm, which has all the security features you need.
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@livelily (141)
• China
5 May 07
Thanks for your help, I insatlled the antivirus "Symantec Antivirus" yesterday, but some updates were displayed a error, and that there is not anti-spyware in my computer. I am going to try to download the above software with your mention, thanks again.
@windhair (498)
• Germany
5 May 07
I must make it clear that SYMENTCH is not free, is there are error during update, it maybe caused by the illegal version you are using. Looks you are from china, some anti-virus softwares are really good from China itself, you can have a try..
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• Denmark
4 May 07
Hi Livelily, Visit http://mylot.com/w/discussions/1053300.aspx I hope you find what you need there. :-)
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@livelily (141)
• China
5 May 07
Hello Pointyblue, just I visited your discussion , that's great, thanks for your help.
• Denmark
5 May 07
:-)
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