What About Macs?
While there are certainly more PC viruses than Mac viruses, the possibility of new Mac viruses, while slight, is still greater than zero.
The possibility of future, cross-platform viruses (viruses that infect both PCs and Macs) is also quite real.
Important Information/Computer Care 101: Keeping Your Computer Healthy/The Weekly “Fab Five”/The Weekly Fab Five/The Weekly Fab Five 1. Update Your Virus Definitions/What is a Virus?/What Viruses CAN’T Do/QUESTION: what’s the difference between a blathering idiot, your congressman, and an Auburn University alumnus?/Viruses and Trojans and Worms (Oh My!)/How Viruses Spread/Virus Diffusion Theories/What This Means in English/http://physicsweb.org/article/world/14/7/9/How Can You Protect Your Computer from Viruses?/Virus Definitions?/Why Update?/If your antivirus program doesn’t have the latest virus definitions, your computer isn’t protected against ANY of these new viruses!/5,000+ … EACH YEAR?!/Updating Your Virus Definitions/Updating Other AV Programs/What About Macs?/Slide 22/The Weekly Fab Five 2. Run Windows Update / Apple Software Update/“Holey Windows, Batman!”/Known OS Vulnerabilities – 10 April 2002/http://online.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/vulns.pl/Closing the Holes/Windows Update/Slide 29/Slide 30/Slide 31/Slide 32/Slide 33/Apple Software Update/Slide 35/The Weekly Fab Five 3. Run ScanDisk / Disk First Aid/How Your Hard Drive Works/“Honey, Does This Table Make Me Look Fat?”/Directory and FAT at Work/Corrupted FAT BAD!/ScanDisk to the Rescue!/Launching ScanDisk/Troubleshooting ScanDisk/ScanDisk for Win 2K or XP/ScanDisk for the Mac/Norton Disk Doctor/Slide 47/The Weekly Fab Five 4. Run Disk Defragmenter/What is “Fragmentation”/Remember This?/An Example of Fragmentation/Slide 52/Why Fragmentation Isn’t Good/What is Defragmentation?/Fragmentation and ULs/Why Defrag?/Defragging a PC/Running Disk Defragmenter/Norton Speed Disk/Slide 60/The Weekly Fab Five 5. Backup Backup Backup/Here’s a Frightening Thought/Disaster Recovery/http://www.langa.com/backups/ backups.htm/My Disaster Recovery Plan?/Slide 66/Want Some More Tips?/More Ways to Protect Your Computer From Viruses/Display File Extensions (PC) /Hidden File Extension Dangers/Solution? Fix Windows So You Can See ALL File Extensions./Show Hidden File Extensions (Windows 9X, NT)/Show Hidden File Extensions (Windows ME, 2000, XP)/“Safe” and “Unsafe” Extensions/“Safe Surf”/Last Tip: Keep Your Software Updated As Well As Your OS/http://office.microsoft.com//http://www.microsoft.com/ downloads/release.asp? releaseid=37761/Slide 79/In Addition to Doing the Weekly Fab Five, Turn on Your PC’s Hidden File Extensions, Practice “Safe Surf,” and Make Sure to Download and Install ALL the Software Patches Available for Your Computer./Fair Use Disclaimer/Slide 82 | |
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