In a perfect world, there would be no hackers but we live in the real world where companies need to have a tight security feature on their IT networks. CIO.com published an article that tells you how to keep your tech support on their game.

It’s often too easy for you busy laptop warriors to assume your Windows PCs are safe. A computer virus? That’s not going to happen to me … until it does.

So in addition to running a full antivirus software suite, either free and good enough (Avast, Microsoft (MSFT) Security Essentials) or paid and Teflon strong (Symantec (SYMC) Norton, Kaspersky), you should also take advantage of Windows 7’s built-in security settings and updates.

These five simple security features in Windows 7 help keep the bad guys at bay.

Click here for the simple steps. Avoiding viruses will also avoid computer repairs so checking those steps out will be killing two birds with one stone.