Use good antivirus program
The viruses are the very big cause for data loss now days. To avoid the virus infection in your data and to protect your data, you must use a good antivirus program.
If you use the floppy disks and CDs in your computer, perform the scanning by antivirus before opening the disks in your computer or before copying anything from it. If you are using internet, always enable your email protection and internet security from the options of your antivirus settings.
Get into the habit of keeping your floppy write-protected
There are many viruses that have the tendency to spread their self to other computers, with the help of floppy disks by just copying their executable program to the floppy in the hidden mode.
A big proportion of viruses are boot record viruses and they cannot get at your hard disk until you boot your system from an infected floppy. You can read and write data on a floppy with an infected boot record for years and never become infected. But booting from such the floppy, even if it is not a bootable disk, will make your system infected with boot sector virus.
Do not use pirated games and software
The pirated games and software are usually prepared by some cracking or by following any other illegal procedures to run even after pirated. These procedures may not be compatible and suitable for the software and hardware configuration of every computer and may destroy your data.
Also, there is a significant number of such software, especially games which have been used as a medium to spread the viruses. Therefore using the pirated software may infect your system with some serious system virus and may cause a big data loss.
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