Recommended settings for scanning an infected PC

This following video suggests the optimal settings changes to make within the TrustPort antivirus program to ensure the highest possible detection rate for virus removal.

NOTE: These settings are NOT recommended for normal use/protection due to the increased use of system memory resources which may have a significant impact on the speed of your computer.

How to protect your computer 

HOW YOU CAN GET INFECTED

Booting the computer from an infected hard disk, cd-rom or diskette.

Executing attached infected files (.exe, .com, .vbs, .dll, .sh, .bat , .scr, .pif and more) you may find inside emails.

Executing infected files (.exe, .com, .doc, .bat, .hlp, .htm, .ini, .js, .php, .pif, .reg, .ppt, .scr, .sh, .shs, .sys, .vbs, .wbt, .xls and more)

Previewing emails usually sent by an unknown person, because they possibly contain destructive code in the form of .html, that is automatically executed upon the email preview.

Browsing infected webpages (usually .htm and .html ).

Just by using the internet. To be more specific, almost every operating system, especially Microsoft Windows, have "security holes" which are exploited by a new type of viruses in order to infect the computer, without asking at ANY point the permission of the user to install any type of software.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

Make a backup of your critical files regularly, after having scanned them with an antivirus program.

Update your antivirus program as often as possible.

Scan every file you download from the Internet.

If you use irc chat, make sure you have disabled the auto-accept-dcc-files option.

Try to have a real-time antivirus monitor while your computer is operating.

Don't visit every website you are invited to by an unknown person. It may contain a non-visible destructive applet.

Disable the execution of java or active-x scripts within your browser.

Unhide the hide-file-extension-of-known-filetypes option within your hard disk explorer. If someone sends you a file called pic.jpg.vbs, you may think it's a .jpg file and execute it!

Security is not a matter of money, it's a matter of life-and-death for your computer!

Source: www.virus.gr