Tips for Securing Your System

As you have seen, Outlook 2007 has several ways to help keep your system more secure, but there are additional steps that you can take to further ensure that you don’t fall victim to viruses or other malicious software.

Make sure that your antivirus protection is kept up to date. The threat from viruses changes on a daily basis, and virus definitions need updating just about as quickly. Set your antivirus software to check for updates automatically, and check it occasionally to make sure that it’s doing so.

Create exceptions to the standard rules with discretion. Although there are a number of ways around the virus protection measures provided in Outlook 2007, you should be careful deciding when you use them. Just because ...

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