Feb 7, 2009

PREVENTING WORM INFECTIONS

Preventing Worm Infections

In order prevent the infection of worms, viruses and other malicious programs, we strongly suggest the following the tips below:

- Avoid opening emails originating from unknown senders. Beware of emails containing holiday themes, relating to money or any of your accounts.

- Never click on links in an email message, even if they appear to come from a reliable source. Your best bet would be to copy and paste them into your address bar.

- Never open email attachments from unknown senders.

- Be careful of the sites you visit online as many of them are designed to deliver malware

- Install a firewall application to prevent intruders from loading malicious content on your computer.

- Defend you computer with security software with the ability to detect known and evolving strains of malware.

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