How to protect computer security during holiday surfing Internet

New Year's Day holiday is near, the long vacation is often the people use the computer and the Internet peak period, this period is also the computer virus high time. Rising anti-virus expert Cai Jun warned that the holiday is the most vulnerable to computer viruses attack three kinds of dangerous users are: not often to anti-virus software to upgrade users, not to their own operating system patched users, the Internet does not open anti-virus software protection features of users.

According to the rising global anti-virus monitoring network data, since Christmas, through the chat software transmission of worms and Trojan virus number than usual 30%, with the previous virus only infected QQ different, recently a variety of viruses can be at the same time through MSN, QQ, UC, Popo and other mainstream Chinese chat software dissemination, So the speed of transmission and infection is very fast.

"In addition, QQ Group and MSN Multiplayer dialogue mode in the future may greatly increase the transmission speed of the virus, a QQ group often has dozens of users or more, which means that as long as there is a user infection, these dozens of users will directly face the threat of viruses." "In the near future, there is a high likelihood of viruses written specifically for this multiple-person session pattern," Cai Jun said.

Cai Jun Analysis said, if developed good safety habits, the probability of computer poisoning will be greatly reduced, just because many ordinary users do not pay enough attention, this is to the virus rampant brought opportunities. For example, on holidays, many users will install a new computer to surf the internet, but new computers often do not have a good system patch, such a computer in the Internet is very vulnerable to attack, or, for example, the holiday on the internet chat or play online games, users greatly increased, and they are not aware of the virus awareness, or turn off the monitoring of anti-virus software, or easily open a friend sent over the link, so the computer is very easy to dye poison.

So how do users protect themselves when they surf the internet during the holidays?

Rising anti-Virus engineers recommend users: When installing a new computer system, pay attention to the system patch, "shock wave" and other malicious worm virus is transmitted through the system, a good patch can prevent such virus infection; When users surf the Internet, they must turn on all the monitoring functions of anti-virus software to prevent the infection of the virus. including file monitoring, mail monitoring, web monitoring, memory monitoring, and so on, do not to reduce resource consumption to close some monitoring functions; Play network games or use network banking, securities business to open Personal Firewall, firewall can isolate the contact between the virus and the outside world, to prevent Trojan virus theft of information. In addition, users do not trust others when chatting.