Learn how to protect your computer. We encourage all users of the Internet and of our website to adhere to the following basic security “best practices”:

1. Always keep your virus detection software and spyware detection software up-to-date.
2. Always keep your software patch levels up-to-date.
3. Enforce a password policy. Complex passwords make it difficult to crack password files on compromised computers. This helps to prevent or limit damage when a computer is compromised.
4. Train employees not to open attachments unless they are expecting them. Also, do not execute software that is downloaded from the Internet unless it has been scanned for viruses. Simply visiting a compromised website can cause infection if certain browser vulnerabilities are not patched.
5. Isolate compromised computers quickly to prevent threats from spreading further.
6. Use a firewall to block all incoming connections from the Internet to services that should not be publicly available.
7. If a threat exploits one or more network services, disable, or block access to, those services until a patch is applied.