Now keep your good fortune on a roll by protecting that new system from computer viruses. It's actually fairly simple.
Computer viruses are programs designed to replicate on their own.
Some merely perform harmless trigger events such as displaying a message on a certain date, while others delete files, which can be extremely costly and frustrating. You'' virus hit an estimated 45 million computers costing billions of dollars in damage and lost work time. You can never predict when viruses will hit. But if you prepare for them, you can usually prevent or reduce the damage. Because so much computing these days is done online, viruses spread primarily through e-mail attachments and software downloaded from the Internet.