My anti-virus is up to date so I am protected, right? – Naked Security

This is question and I have an Anti-Virus program on my machine, WHY DID I GET INFIECTED? are questions that are brought up so often. The reality of the situation is that there is no defense that is 100%. When you realize that and if you are watchful of where you go on the internet and what you are doing when you are there, you can reduce the chance of your getting infected. There are a lot of reasons for something nasty to get past your malware protection. Many of the start with you! Don’t be “Click Happy”. Think before you take the big leap.

Take a look at this article to give you some more detailed thoughts on this but here is a brief list of issues they outline that could cause these issues:

Are you safe if:

• You aren’t regularly deploying the latest security patches?
• You disabled a security feature after a user complained Facebook was slower?
• You have unprotected mobile devices that can connect to file shares?
• Your email doesn’t get scanned for viruses and spam?
• Visitors can access your Wi-Fi, which is on the same network as your servers?
• Anyone is allowed to turn on macros in Office documents they receive via email?
• Users can read files they shouldn’t access at all and write to files they shouldn’t change?
• You don’t require users to choose suitable passwords?
• You ignore alerts from your security software that are warning you something is wrong?
• You’ve forgotten about those old XP machines still running in the basement?