As a customer with MonarchNET, you will receive a static IP address and have a constant connection to the Internet. This may pose a security risk if you want to use the file sharing function in Windows. To turn off the file sharing function, right click on your network neighborhood icon and click the configuration tab. Click on OK to apply the changes. Viruses One of the biggest fears of having computers connected to the Internet are viruses.
Viruses are programs designed to destruct computers.
Once the virus is made it will be distributed through shareware, pirated software, e-mail, or other various ways of transporting data. Once the virus infects someone's computer it will either start infecting other data, destroying data, over writing data, or corrupting software. When that disk is put into another computer their computer is then infected, if that person puts files on the Internet and hundreds of people download that file they are all infected and then the process continues infecting thousands if not millions of people. Be sure they are from a reliable source, and that the person who sent it to you did so themselves. The most commonly used method of protecting against and detecting viruses is to purchase a third party application designed to scan for all types of viruses.