subject: How to Use Active and Passive Virus Protection [print this page] When you use your computer, there are passive and active means to ensure your PC is protected against unwanted viruses, trojans and malware attacks. Active means the activities you participate in protecting and maintaining your computer. Passive means is generally set up a software making some adjustments and then be able to forget it and let it perform its function when it is set to perform this function.
Consider some of the passive;
Firewall - Your firewall or as a separate program or as part of a series anti-virus, once its parameters are the level of protection you need - its done.
Anti-virus - Your antivirus program will be a section for the settings for an automatic scan, the configuration of your preferred time and day for the operation and set your preferences again, usually weekly. Please note that this transaction will be made only when your computer is on and running.
E-mail - Once your mail program is configured for spam, your e-mails that come through that you helped to say what is spam and what is not, is fixed.
Internet settings - found in the control panel, make sure you have the highest efficiency operating parameters that will always provide additional security and privacy.
The computer is idle - Turn off your computer and your Internet modem (unless the modem is in use by cable or wireless home users)
Lets look at some active measures, additional actions for active measures are generally required to qualify for additional protective measures, or when we believe that there are active infections on the computer at home;
Firewall - Your firewall may be opened and put its security at higher value, useful if you need to download software or updates and we still need to temporarily connect to the internet.
Anti-Virus - Update immediately, and run a manual scan.
E-mail - Once your mail program is configured for spam, your e-mails that come through you, now require a manual check to make sure no legitimate e-mails are in the spam box that false positives.
Other means of active measures can understand if you think that the activity of the virus is to disable the Internet connection, run a virus and malware, delete all temporary files and do this process again in 'security' mode of Windows.
