{"id":1004,"date":"2016-09-09T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:41:49","slug":"prevent-malware-infection-best-practices-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2016\/09\/09\/prevent-malware-infection-best-practices-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevent malware infection &#8212; best practices review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malwarebytes Blog recently discussed &#8220;<a title=\"How about how to stop the infection from happening in the first place?\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2016\/08\/10-easy-ways-to-prevent-malware-infection\/?utm_source=double-opt-%20in&#038;utm_medium=email-internal-b2c&#038;utm_campaign=EM-August-2nd-2016newsletter&#038;utm_content=prevent-malware-infection\" target=\"_blank\">10 easy ways to prevent malware infection<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; for your PC, Mac, or mobile device. Read the article for the complete text. Here&#8217;s the summary below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protect vulnerabilities<\/strong>: Update your operating system, browsers, and plugins; Enable click-to-play plugins; Remove software you don\u2019t use (especially legacy programs).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch out for social engineering<\/strong>: Read emails with an eagle eye; Do not call fake tech support numbers; Do not believe the cold callers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Practice safe browsing<\/strong>: Use strong passwords and\/or password managers; Make sure you\u2019re on a secure connection; Log out of websites after you\u2019re done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Layer your security<\/strong>: Use firewall, antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-exploit technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malwarebytes Blog recently discussed &#8220;10 easy ways to prevent malware infection&#8221; &#8212; for your PC, Mac, or mobile device. Read the article for the complete text. Here&#8217;s the summary below. Protect vulnerabilities: Update your operating system, browsers, and plugins; Enable click-to-play plugins; Remove software you don\u2019t use (especially legacy programs). Watch out for social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,36],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-malware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}