As everyone knows April 1st is the pranksters day known as April Fools Day. April Fools Day can be quite fun. The joy of putting a fake spider on your co-workers desk, who happens to have Arachnophobia. But you need to be careful for yourself on this day of lols, mostly due to computer pranks also. April Fools is a dangerous day for computer users as it is one of the top days in the year when computer viruses are releases.

But what can you do to prevent this? Here are my top five tips:

5. Be aware of what pages you are viewing. Try not to go to any websites that you have not been to before.

4. Know who you communicate with. When using an instant messenger or checking email don’t open any links or files unless it relates to the discussed topic at hand. The person who your talking to may already have a virus that spams his/her contact list.

3. Keep updated! Check that all of your software is up to date, most updates are security fixes to prevent problems.

2. Get Protection! Make sure you have anti-virus software and that its up to date. If you don’t have any anti-virus software? Here is a free one. Just wants you to register once a year.

1. Abstinence. You can’t get infected if the computer is not on.

That’s it. Spread this around to help everyone to stay computer safe this April 1st.