Stay Protected from April Fool's Day Virus

Today is April 1 and also popularly April Fool's Day . Today is one of those days where viruses flow everywhere . Almost all of us would get a suspicious email which could be a virus . Especially the recent conficker virus which is expected to download some new instructions from its "master" today and continue its damaging work . So today and the coming week is very critical , you need to make sure that every step your pc takes , be it visiting a suspicious website , opening a suspicious email etc. The major expectation today is the conficker virus , there will surely be other new viruses which would be created today . But conficker seems to be the highlight . Conficker C imbeds itself deep in the computer where it is difficult to track. The program, for instance, stops Windows from conducting automatic updates that could prevent the malware from causing damage. It could even disable your Antivirus . Linux Users need not worry , you wouldn't be affected by this AT ALL . So here's a small guide on what you should do to stay protected :

Firstly, i guess its important to check if your PC has the conficker virus . For this you could use THIS TOOL to see if your PC is already infected with this virus.



Here are a set of other things you should do for today and the coming week :

1)STAY AWAY FROM SUSPICIOUS EMAIL - mails from unknown people

2)DO NOT OPEN .EXE ATTACHMENTS - like birthdaycard.exe even if they are sent from your friends/relatives.

3)DO NOT VISIT SUSPICIOUS WEBSITES - always Google Search to see if that website is clean or use AVG which has this feature

4)GET THE LATEST WINDOWS UPDATES - just use the windows update manager and click on UPDATE (very important )

5)UPDATE YOUR ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE - it should be automatically , if not just update manually

6)DISABLE AUTORUN ON YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE - you can find a tutorial HERE

7)DO NOT CLICK ON SUSPICIOUS .EXE FILE ON PEN DRIVES - they maybe very dangerous viruses.

8)PERFORM A COMPLETE SYSTEM SCAN- very important to see if you already have viruses.

9)MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN ANTISPYWARE ALSO INSTALLED - An antivirus alone is not enough . Get the Latest AVG which comes with a built in antispyware

10)DO NOT RESPOND TO AN INSTANT MESSAGE FROM AN UNKNOWN PERSON IN YAHOO,MSN,GTALK etc - They would probably post a link to a website which is full of virus.