Nowadays, cybercriminals have taken the advantage of vulnerability of their potential victims to malware attacks. It is easier for hackers to attack users through their computers or PCs using malware than using most of the other tricks. The worst thing about the modern era is the high social media sites usage, high mobility of employee, and dominant user-driven IT because these factors have increased the level of exposure of business networks to attacks inform of malware. The best practice adopted should mitigate effects of viruses, worms, as well as the advanced issues from Trojans (Symantec, 2018). The practice should minimize the probability of losing confidential, sensitive, and personal data like SSN, credit card numbers as well as passwords.

For users and organizations to mitigate the effects of malware on machines, the managers should focus on educating and training users. The reason is that most of the malware attacks use social engineering (Musthaler, 2011). This will mitigate the effects of malware on machines by minimizing the likelihood of attacks on machines, teach users on how to detect and resolve, and create awareness and confidence among users to share about cases or what they notice. Therefore, training should focus on critical topics (Musthaler, 2011). These topics should teach the users not to click any untrusted and unknown source; not to update "Flash," "codec," or "media player" when they are promoted by a site hosting videos or not affiliated with the app; not use P2P apps on business machines; and not click any attachments or links from unknown and untrusted sources.