It is recommended not to open a file joint with an odd message, to
update the antivirus patches safety and signatures, to pay attention
while surfant on Internet

What an odd message?
a) message not having any text but only
one file attached
b) message in English on behalf of an
interlocutor who always sends French
messages c) attached file
not awaited on behalf of an unknown interlocutor with an odd text

d) etc.

At the time of the reading of your
messages e-mail, unquestionable e-mail can contain viruses in the
attached files. These viruses use your address book and the addresses
contained in the old messages to often send by chance files of your
disc (DOC, XLS) infected to your correspondents with an address of
random shipper. Losses of data, sending of confidential documents,
saturation of the waiters by effect "swell of snow" are to be feared.



The viruses can also hide in files which one
downloads on Internet while surfant, which is downloaded all alone or
which appears in encrypted attached parts whose code is indicated in
the body of the household!

It is thus of primary
importance to have antiviruses which are updated regularly.

Attention, the signatures of the viruses can be updated automatically,
but it is necessary to intervene manually to install the new engines
of detections and the patches. NetShield and VirusScan have for
example patches (available on the site www.nai.com if there is "Grant
Number" which allows a upgrade during one year or two of the bought
products).

The configuration of the antivirus
solution must also be followed in the data-processing environment so
as to optimize it.

You can also scanner your disk hard
on line (see related article)

To put absolutely up to
date your operating system Windows.
It is important that you
pass the updates critical of your operating systems Windows. AFTER
having controlled and having erradiqué any virus of your system. If
you need assistance, do not hesitate to contact SysCo or with your
retailer hardware/software.
Microsoft places its patches
safety at the disposal on its site dedicated
http://www.windowsupdate.com.
Once that one installed the
patches safety the potentially dangerous enclosures is not
straightforwardly working any more on the station (lnk, pif, scr, bs,
exe, etc.)