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SAFETY MEASURES TO PREVENT MALWARE
                  There are many remedial measures with which we can fight the viruses, spyware and other malware. There
                  is a popular saying that, “Prevention is better than cure”.
                  Some of the popular preventive measures to keep virus at bay are:

                  Download Information from Trusted Websites

                  Always download contents from a legitimate website. The web address of such websites start with ‘https’.
                  Untrusted websites might infect the computer system with virus.

                  Installation of Antivirus

                  There are medicines to keep us healthy to fight against bacteria or viruses that infect our body. Similarly,
                  there are antivirus software which are used to safeguard or prevent the computer from virus and for
                  cleaning the unwanted programs.
                  Antivirus are remedial software that scan, detect, clean and remove virus from a computer system. Some
                  antiviruses also help to recover the data which are lost.

                  Once the antivirus software is installed in a computer, it prompts and informs the user if there is an attack
                  of virus on the computer. Some common examples of antivirus are:
                  l    Avast                                 l   McAfee                         l    Quick Heal
                  l    Nortan                                l   AVG antivirus                  l    Kaspersky

                  Scanning & Cleaning of Hard Disk

                  If a user faces some unusual symptoms while operating a computer, then it must be scanned and also
                  cleaned as it may have been infected by a malware. To do so:

                  l    Install an Antivirus, say ‘Quick Heal Total Security’ in the computer system.
                  l    Select and right click on the file/folder or drive, which is to be checked for threats of virus.
                  l    Click on ‘Quick Heal Total Security Scan’.
                  l    The scanning process begins. To pause or stop the process of scanning in between, the user can click
                       on the buttons ‘Pause’ or ‘Stop’.

                  l    The infected files(if any) will be cleaned/ deleted automatically.




























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