Virus Protection
What is a Virus?
A virus is a manmade program or piece of code causing an unexpected,
usually negative, event. Viruses are often disguised games or images with clever
marketing titles such as "Me, nude."
What is a Worm?
Computer Worms are viruses residing in the active memory of a computer
and continually duplicate themselves. They may send copies of themselves to other
computers through email or Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
What is a Trojan Horse?
A Trojan horse program is a malicious program pretending
to be a benign application; a Trojan horse program purposefully does something the
user does not expect. Trojans are not viruses since they do not replicate, but Trojan
horse programs can be just as destructive.
Best way to protect from Virus?
Most viruses are spread via email, but this does not eliminate the need for AntiVirus
products to run on your local servers and workstations.
• Have anti-virus software running on the front end of your mail server
• Have anti-virus software installed on your servers
• Have anti-virus software installed on your workstation
• Use anti-virus software with an auto update feature to keep the software updated
to the latest version and “DAT” files
• Don’t open emails from unknown senders if you don’t recognize them. • Set your
pc as a restricted user. Most virus programs look for the administrator to operate.
If no administrator is available, the virus access it limited.
