Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software | LiveScience

Take those software update alerts seriously. CREDIT: Wikipedia/Public domain

You’ve installed antivirus software on your computer. You have a good firewall on your PC or home Internet gateway, and you leave it turned on.

And you never open attachments from unknown sources or click on email links that look suspicious.

Yet your computer still has managed to get infected by viruses, Trojans and other forms of malware. How could that happen?

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