Three measures prevent malware from protecting network security

I don't know how to defend. How can I attack? Preventing problems before they happen may be the basic prerequisite for ensuring the effectiveness of any security means. Because of the diversity and complexity of malware, it is the most effective way to prevent malware. Practice has proved that the discovery and removal of malware is time-consuming and laborious. All measures used to prevent malware infection can save Administrators and Users a lot of time, saves a lot of trouble.
Malware removal usually requires a special understanding of how a malware affects a particular system, and various preventive measures can effectively prevent malware regardless of its characteristics. Of course, some types of malware can escape some defense barriers, so it is best to take as many defense measures as possible.

Patch timely

The most obvious way to prevent malware infection is to maintain timely patches for the operating system. Most malware uses system defects or vulnerabilities to infect the operating system and its applications. A new computer system with complete patches can greatly reduce the possibility of malware infection. However, be careful with some vulnerabilities that are currently unknown and have not been released, and the possibility that they will be exploited by malware.

Another way to prevent malware infection is to run Vulnerable applications. In fact, most malware targets the most common operating systems and their local applications. Because the operating system is closely related to applications, malware can usually cause more damage. For example, using a third-party Web browser is an excellent way to reduce potential threats.

Use anti-malware prevention tools

Anti-malware tools are another protection option. Almost all anti-virus and anti-spyware tools compile the characteristics of malware and describe the characteristics and behavior of malware in detail. If a malicious threat successfully escapes the first line of defense, the software can block, isolate, or clear identified threats when it attacks the system. On the other hand, these tools need to constantly update their feature libraries-so it is very likely to omit the feature descriptions of a malware. To improve the effectiveness of feature-based tools and software, it is a good idea to run multiple types of prevention tools to cover as many malware features as possible.

The best anti-malware tool uses abnormal state detection technology and feature-based defense methods. These tools can adapt to new types of malware. They constantly take snapshots of operating system images and compare them with previous images to find out their differences. These methods depend on the software's ability to identify new threats. They can also be called an "Exploration attribute ". This is still a developing malware defense technology, and its effectiveness is not 100%, but they do provide an additional defense.

Educate users

Relying on itself, the technology-based defense method is very hard to be fully effective. In addition, many threats still rely on social engineering strategies around the most advanced anti-malware technologies. For these malware threats, the best (and sometimes the only) defense method is user education. The best way to defend against malware is to let users know what information and operations they cannot receive, what sites they cannot access, and what people they cannot trust.