New prevention tools

Basically there are two factors to protect computers from Trojans and cybercrime. The first factor is the person sitting in front of the computer. This means that you must not click on any links in mails or open file attachments without thinking about it. It has already paid off to call the colleague from whom the mail seems to have come, to find out whether he really sent a file to secure yourself again. This is often easier, even if it takes a few seconds, than having to spend thousands of euros later because you have caught a Trojan on the net. This means that you really have to train employees on it. Especially in human resources departments, you can’t expect the people who work there to be so IT-affine that they will immediately identify such phishing and spam mails. That means training employees to make them pay attention. The second factor is that you install protection software on a Windows computer, of course, which can ward off Trojans and viruses. These are so-called virus scanners that monitor the system in real time and log all file accesses and intervene if necessary. This means that if a Trojan is detected, the program blocks the access and it is immediately deleted. And with Windows 10, an anti-virus protection software is included and active by default. That is Windows Defender and we at CT would say that for private users this is actually sufficient as a protection solution. Of course, you should not move around on any pirated pages and click on everything there. Because then such a protection solution cannot really protect you anymore. Usually it is enough, if you want to have something in addition, to install a free antivirus scanner. In companies or large enterprises this looks different again. With complex networks and directories and so on, it makes sense to implement more comprehensive protection solutions, which of course have to be maintained by the admins. Otherwise the protection solutions are sometimes not very useful.

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