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There are basically various ways to protect your computers from viruses, but for clarity and exactness I have condensed all those ways that are correlated and relevant to the subject matter.

Use a high quality anti-virus program. Look to reputable computer magazines or websites for ratings to help you find the one that matches your needs.

Always use your anti-virus software. The anti-virus software must be tuned on as often as it should be.

Keep your anti-virus programs up to date. Modern computer viruses have been so hard to counter-attack since they are tightly created. Thus, it is very important to keep your anti-virus software updated, to keep track with the ever fast phased evolution towards proliferating PC viruses.

Keep your computer up to date. From time to time operating systems fall victim to security holes or issue updates. Make sure you check periodically to make sure you are running stable up to date versions of your software.

Backup your data regularly. Making copies of the documents to CD or USB are very important these days, since viruses inevitably can get harm on the files or programs you have created.

Be wary of email attachments. Many computer viruses replicate themselves by reading the contacts from an infected computer.

Use text email if possible. By opening an attachment is the only way to get a virus when using text based mail.

Use downloaded freeware and shareware files or software with caution. Be observant. Try to be cautious with regards to using of downloaded freeware because some of them are unreliable. Try to get them from reputable sources because they are said to be already scanned for viruses.

Cheers :p