Thread: Virus in Social Media?

It is a nice article Gobi. If I accidentally clicked a link containing virus, what should I do safeguard my system from virus/ to reduce the effect of virus?

Originally Posted by Inthuja

If I accidentally clicked a link containing virus, what should I do safeguard my system from virus/ to reduce the effect of virus?

• The first ever thing for you to do is DISCONNECT your INTERNET. Don't keep you connected if you're a victim of a phishing attack. It may take you to disasters.
• Second use a trusted Malware removal tool and scan your system. If anything found, remove it with the support of the tool.
• Depending on the malware, you might or might not lose some date. (that completely depends on the way the malware works)
• If it's a worse worse scenario, then you'd better format your hard and install a fresh copy of OS.

SAFETY TIP: In case you needed a format like above, you might lose your data. So as a precaution, always have a mechanism to have a backup of you critical data. There are so many applications which syncs your data with an online storage, so you can have it later on, or else you can go with some other methods of offline backing up techniques. But make sure you have backed up date before you get compromised.

Originally Posted by MDilbara

• The first ever thing for you to do is DISCONNECT your INTERNET. Don't keep you connected if you're a victim of a phishing attack. It may take you to disasters.
• Second use a trusted Malware removal tool and scan your system. If anything found, remove it with the support of the tool.
• Depending on the malware, you might or might not lose some date. (that completely depends on the way the malware works)
• If it's a worse worse scenario, then you'd better format your hard and install a fresh copy of OS.

SAFETY TIP: In case you needed a format like above, you might lose your data. So as a precaution, always have a mechanism to have a backup of you critical data. There are so many applications which syncs your data with an online storage, so you can have it later one, or else you can go with some other methods of offline backing up techniques. But make sure you have backed up date before you get compromised.

That is awesome, but sounds like there's no other easy way to escape from malware attacks.

Originally Posted by Gobi

but sounds like there's no other easy way to escape from malware attacks.

The only possible and practical way is to educate the users and give awareness to be preventive. Coz the more we become smarter, the hackers also becomes ever smarter than us. So we have to learn and be preventive. No other options.

It's always a human attribute which leads to a compromise.