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Thank you for visiting this section of our site. It is designed to assist you in securing your system and dealing with malware (viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, and other nasty software).

It is important that you take the following steps now to ensure your system is free from malware and stays that way. If your system becomes infected, it endangers every other system in your network, other computers on the Internet, and makes your company or organization look less professional.

Everyone, no matter how careful they are, will eventually encounter malware, and it doesn’t mean you are a bad person. The authors of this stuff are getting craftier and more devious all the time, because people and anti-malware software are getting smarter.

Since the majority of computer users use the Microsoft Windows operating system on an Intel or AMD based machine, that is what is described here. OS/2, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, and every other variation of UNIX all have similar vulnerabilities and are subject to malware and hacking attempts. The specific steps mentioned may not work if you are running something other than Windows, but the concepts and many of the links will still be useful for you.

These steps might seem a bit complicated or overboard, but they are critical to successfully thwarting much of the malware out there. It is each computer operator’s responsibility to perform these tasks regularly.

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