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PREVENTIVE MEASURES (FIREWALL,
ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE)
PRESENTED BY,
SREESHMA M

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PREVENTIVE MEASURES TO AVOID VIRUSES AND SPYWARE
1. Install quality antivirus
• Free anti-virus software offers basic protection for your computer
• Helps to protect your PC from common viruses, blocks dangerous files
and apps and warns you about suspicious websites
• Paying for anti-virus software tends to allow you to secure all your
devices
• Paid anti-virus options give you greater control over your private data
and increases protection around sensitive online activity like banking
• Paid anti-virus provides extended functions such as anti-spam, a personal
firewall, parental control features

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2. Install real-time anti-spyware protection
• Capable of detecting and eliminating threats like malware,
trojans, phishing scams etc. in real-time
• Many free programs can detect spyware threats
once they have infected a system
• Professional anti-spyware programs are required to
prevent infections and fully remove those infections

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3. Keep anti-malware application current
• Computer users must keep their anti-virus and anti-spyware
applications up to date
4. Perform daily scans
• Occasionally virus and spyware threats escape systems active protective
engines and infect a system
• Daily scan of a system’s entire hard drive adds another layer of
protection

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5. Don’t click on email links or attachments
• Clicking on an email link or attachment can corrupt windows in fact
other machines and destroyed critical data
6. Surf smart
• Users should never end up user account, personal, financial or other
sensitive information on any webpage at which they have in reach
manually
• Should not click on hyperlinks which can lead to fraudulent, fake and
unauthorised websites

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7. Disable Auto run
• This feature allows windows explorer to
automatically launch programs from inserted
storage drives and other media
8. Use a hardware-based firewall

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FIREWALL
• A firewall is a system designed to prevent and unauthorised access to or
from a private network
• A firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls
incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security
rules
• Set of rules - source address, protocol
• Firewall reject malicious data

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• Hardware/Software (or combination of both)
• All the data passes through the firewall
• After examining the data, firewall either block or pass the data
• Most hardware firewalls will have a minimum of 4 network ports to
connect other computers, but for larger networks, business networking
firewall solutions are available
• Software firewalls are installed on your computer

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ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE
• A software that assists the operating system in providing virus free
environment to the users is called anti-virus.
• Scans the system for any virus and if detected ,gets rid of it by deleting
or isolating it.
• It can detect many types of malwares like , Trojan, Worm , Spyware,
ransomware, adware, keyloggers, etc.
• Anti virus software will scan external storage device like USB that is
attached to system.

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EXAMPLES
BITDEFENDER
• Complete and real time data protection.
• Multi layer ransomware protection.
• Anti phishing protection.
• Bitdefender VPN
• Safe online banking

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NORTON
• Real time online threat protection.
• Smart firewall
• Web cam protection.
• Password manager – easily create , store and
manage your passwords, credit card details and
other credentials online safety.
• Secure VPN

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THANK YOU