Windows system anti-virus Security Protection

The following articles mainly describe how to protect Windows system anti-virus security. For any Windows System of Microsoft, good anti-virus software is used to communicate with other computers, especially when connecting to the Internet using browsers, e-mails, or instant messaging software for surfing activities.

It seems that everyone has their favorite anti-virus solutions and their own characteristics. However, from the perspective of security experts, there is a general principle for Personal desktop systems:

1. install anti-virus software before connecting to the Internet. Before connecting to the Internet, any Microsoft Windows computer should install anti-virus software. I have seen such an example that malware can infect computers faster than downloading anti-virus software. If you don't realize this, think that you don't have to worry about viruses before you open a web browser to access websites that download anti-virus software, it means that you are playing a Russian round-robin game on computer security issues.

2. Do not use the default anti-virus software. As Norton and McAfee, which were once the most trustworthy brand anti-virus software for family users, have already hurt their reputation. Currently, most security experts in home desktops suggest replacing them with other anti-virus software as soon as possible.

If you trust Trend Micro's enterprise-level anti-virus products, the free anti-virus software provided by Trend Micro is not as good as it promotes for new computers. Generally, the "free" anti-virus software obtained from the computers of big-name manufacturers is only for the sake of market promotion and is not your best choice.

3. Select the anti-virus software that contains the real-time scanning tool. To prevent computers from encountering viruses or worms, you need a real-time automatic scanning tool to ensure that viruses and worms are infected during daily work to prevent them from spreading. Real-Time Scanning may put more pressure on the system performance. Therefore, you often have the idea of disabling it, but be careful. When Browsing webpages and sending and receiving emails, you should not disable Real-Time Scanning of anti-virus software for additional performance improvement.

4. Perform regular comprehensive scanning of the system. Relying only on real-time scanning is far from enough. You should also ensure that the system is frequently fully scanned. If possible, the system should be automatically scanned every day. Real-time scanning can only be performed before virus infection. if the system is infected during connection, it can be effectively protected, it is also possible that the virus is not included in the feature code library of Windows anti-virus software. Therefore, Comprehensive scanning is very necessary.

5. Do not use two types of anti-virus software. Using two types of anti-virus software at the same time can only cause trouble. Whether they are connected to the network, their real-time scanning tools will cause a conflict of control, resulting in a decline in system performance, or a virus signature file is processed as an actual virus, leading to problems. Therefore, maintaining incompatible Desktop Anti-virus software at the same time will lead to many unexpected situations.

The methods I have always insisted on include the following:

Download and install software from a protected computer and burn them to a CD.

Make sure that the computer running Microsoft Windows is not connected to the network.

Delete all installed anti-virus software.

Install the free version of AVG and set it according to the pre-configured configuration to ensure that the real-time scan is enabled. Scans the system to ensure its security.

Install ClamWin and run the complete system scan periodically every day or every week (depending on the expected frequency of use on this computer.

I know I just broke rule 5th: Do not use two types of Windows anti-virus software at the same time. However, I found that the free version of AVG does not conflict with ClamWin and it runs very reliably, which is a rare exception in existing anti-virus software. Since no anti-virus software is perfect, the two anti-virus software can work together to significantly improve the security protection effect.

Of course, part of the reason they work well is that ClamWin does not contain real-time scanning tools. It is well known that CalmAV performs virus scanning on many mail servers running on Linux and Unix. The ClamWin official website explains this:

Please note that the free version of ClamWin anti-virus software does not include real-time automatic scanning tools. You need to manually scan the file to detect viruses or spyware.

I chose AVG as its real-time scanning tool and used ClamWin for regular scanning. From time to time, I will use AVG to run a complete system scan, and ClamWin will be used for scanning when the computer is idle.

Of course, there are many other ways to protect the system from virus attacks. An excellent firewall; users stick to good security habits when Browsing webpages, checking emails or downloading files; even Microsoft's Windows User Account Control Feature can sometimes help-although UAC brings a lot more trouble than benefit to some extent.

In any case, do not believe that Microsoft Windows will bring you false propaganda about security. Microsoft still ignores vulnerabilities that can be exploited by viruses and worms, and the default settings are not improved. When the basic structure of Microsoft Windows cannot improve security to prevent attacks from viruses, user security behavior is still one of the key factors to ensure system security.

The above content is a decisive introduction to the Windows system's anti-virus security protection. I hope you will gain some benefits.