Virus Scan Your Life
My computer is critical to my work. It’s a tool which makes my time more productive and valuable. It also makes my work much easier. However, when my computer has problems it can be immensely frustrating. Downtime for such an integral tool can disrupt my entire life.
Sources of disruption to any computer system are Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, and Spyware. Each malicious piece of programming that takes control of your computer can cause it to slow down, damage or erase files, steal critical personal information, hijack your resources, or spread trouble to others. The damage this can do is sometimes incalculable.
It pays to guard against viruses. The first defense is a good, reputable program that blocks viruses from entering your system in the first place. Also you have to watch where you surf, what files you mingle, and what access you grant to others. Caution is critical.
Occasionally, you have to do a full system scan to see if a virus has imbedded itself in your computer without your realizing. Hopefully your preventative software has done its job and no viruses are present. At other times, a virus has slipped through and you have to either destroy or quarantine that virus so it doesn’t cause further harm.
We take great care to prevent and regularly sweep the malicious software from our computers, but do we do the same with our lives, our bodies, our minds. Actually the greatest tool we all have is our minds and bodies. Do we take the time to control what goes into them the way we control what goes into our computers? Do we allow malicious things to enter them that slow down, damage, erase, hijack and spread to others?
Just as we install preventative software to guard what goes into our computers, we can set up standards for what we allow to enter our minds and bodies. And just like our computers occasionally we should do a full scan of our lives to see if we can identify, then eliminate things we have allowed to slip in which are destructive and damaging to our effective functioning.
We only have one body and mind. It makes sense to treat them at least as well as we do our computers.
