The Five Most Stupid Myths for Computer Protection

Every month thousands of computers, get damaged or destroyed due to virus infections. One reason why this is happening is mainly because the current viruses are completely different than the form that had a year ago. 

What is important is to understand that we cannot destroy the new viruses using the classic ways of dealing with them, but many users do not even understand these changes in the form of current viruses. 

1. Only files ending in .Exe (executable that can run themselves) may be contaminated with viruses. This is completely wrong because there are hundreds of file extensions that can be infected by viruses. 

2. I have more than an antivirus software on my computer. Make sure you have a single program that can run normally, receiving regular updates and its use period is not over. 

3. I understand when my computer has a virus. This was actually up 10 years ago, now virus coders have created ways to prevent visible signs of infection. 

4. A virus can not harm my computer engineering. Like I said before the purpose of the virus has now changed and not just confined to “slow your computer” instead there are certain viruses which are made solely to challenge the hardware of computers and the most frequent target of these are the hard disks.

5. My computer has antivirus installed so it is fully protected. This is totally outdated myth which was only true for old antivirus programs. Today, the worms, the hoax, the backdoors of trojans and many other forms of viruses are made to fool even the best antivirus software on the market, especially when having to deal with many types of infections simultaneously. It is very important to have a properly installed antivirus program that is effective and updated on a daily basis. 

It is time to realize that times have changed and so are attacks by viruses as well as dealing with them.