4. A virus takes advantage of the resources
available on an infected system to do some
or all of the following to destroy data; and
possibly to embarrass the owner of the
system by distributing documents found on
the victim system's hard drive.
Some viruses only cause computers to
make strange beeps at certain times, while
other viruses can permanently destroy the
data.
Most viruses now include some mechanism
for propagating themselves to other
6. Keep your antivirus software up to
date by updating its virus definition list
regularly, or setting it to automatically
update
Don't open any suspicious
attachments, especially if you don't
know why they were sent to you.
Immediately delete these suspect files
and be careful to avoid accidentally
double-clicking a file, causing it to
execute. Make sure your email
program is not set to automatically
open attachments.
8. Problem of information
management
1. Situations where meeting the
information need, or information
processing -- is non-trivial and
requires application of specialized
skills, resources and system
development.
2. Situations where present
information management in
organization does not satisfy the
needs.
10. Promoting the understanding of
information importance in the
organization — This is very
important. If people in the
organization do not realize the
importance od data and information,
and what are immediate as well as
indirect effects of good and bad
information management, then IT
will not be used to its full potential.
11. Improving the organization of existing
information — Often, we do not need
build a new IT system. Instead, we can
take the information at hand and bring
it to better shape, using various
techniques, some of those are very
simple. This strategy can be
considered at any time; it can bring
quick return at low cost.
12. „Informatization” of the process — A
general strategy of identifying
information processing operations in a
work process and building IT solutions
to supply these operations with
information and high quality and low
cost. Making processes more
information-intensive has become
practical necessity in virtually all areas
of life today.
