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Overview |
Step 1: Get anti-virus software |
Step 2: Update your anti-virus software
Step 3: Ensure that your computer is free of viruses |
Step 4: Set up a firewall |
Step 5: Install operating system updates |
Step 6: Install Microsoft Office updates |
Step 7: Remove spyware |
Step 8: Finish |

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Step 2: Update your anti-virus software

Updating your anti-virus software is a required step in ensuring computer security.

Is your anti-virus software current?

If you just installed Sophos as instructed in Step 1, Sophos updates automatically. Skip to Step 3.

Open your anti-virus software program. Modern anti-virus programs will tell you very plainly if they are current. If you just bought new anti-virus software on CD-ROM or online and installed it, it is most likely not current.

Not Sure

If there's no easy way to tell if your anti-virus software is current, uninstall it, then return to Step 1: Get anti-virus software.

No

  1. Uninstall your anti-virus software.
  2. Restart your computer.
  3. Reinstall your anti-virus software.
  4. Restart your computer.
  5. Let your anti-virus software update automatically.
  6. Restart your computer.

If your anti-virus software is still not current, try the help options below.

Yes

Congratulations! Proceed to Step 3: Ensure that your computer is free of viruses.

Help? Feedback?

Try asking your question in the Craigslist computer forum. To provide feedback for this page, send the URL and your comments to Web & Data Services Manager Frank Farm at farmf@pharmacy.ucsf.edu.

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