New viruses are being created everyday. With the latest technoligy of antivirus software you can give your computer a broad spectrum of protection. Viruses have grown both in complexity and strength, fortunatly so have the tools to combat them. There are a lot of antivirus products, and choosing one can sometimes be difficult. A good antivirus should have the following: it should be user friendly so that basicly anyone, even a novice can use it. It should clean and restore infected files, and identify threats . In addition to this, it must also be able to identify worms, trojan horses, spyware etc as well as give an active report of the scan results. A help centre via e-mail or telephone should also be available.
Viruses can lead to the complete failure of your computer and loss of your personal files. It can slow your computer down and make it act in a strange way.
Lets take a look at some of these viruses:
WORMS: It basically uses a network to send copies of itself to other terminals on the network, it almost always causes harm to the network by consuming bandwith.
TROJAN HORSE: It is a piece of software which at first appears to perform a certain act or action, however it performes in fact, a different action such as a computer virus, which may be harmfull.
SPYWARE AND ADWARE: Sometimes called "MALWARE". These are usally files that looks at your browsing activity. It can also look at what you purchase, slow your system down and even record your credit card number.
So in essence we are looking for a product or products that can be, easy to use and install, identify Viruses, give real time scanning and protection, cleaning isolated and infected files, scanning E-mails and identifing them and having a help centre in the form of E-mail or telephone.
It is always recommended to have your fire- wall active and to not surf the net and download content from unknown sites. The reason for this is you can attract viruses, spyware and adware or any kind of malicious software, even thought you have a good and strong antivirus software, prevention is better than cure.
We have reviewed some of the best anti-virus software on the market today and you can find out more by visiting this site.
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