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Virus - and malware protection in general usually requires both technical and behavioral solutions.

From a technical standpoint, having a good email filter installed, using network and host-based firewalls, and installing a good anti-malware program that has both signature-based and heuristic malware detection capabilities (and keeping it up-to-date) will help.

From a behavioral standpoint, educating the users about good practices can reduce the incidents of malware infecting a computer.

Good practices include (but are not limited to) - not clicking on links in emails without knowing for a FACT what is on the other end, resisting the temptation to download that really neat "free" program (that may come with hidden malware), not falling for social engineering attacks, and not plugging in random flash drives that you found lying around.

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