In spite of the fact that the Internet is one of the most common means of virus propagation, floppy disks continue to be an important virus entryway.

Apart from scanning all the floppy disks that you use, another way to avoid boot viruses is by removing all disks from the drives on shutting down or restarting your computer.

In case you might forget to do so, it would be convenient to have an antivirus program that checks for infected floppy disks on the computer.