Software recommendations for protecting your computer and data
Computer Virus is first and foremost menace that keeps spoiling my & other internet users internet experience. With technology advancing everyday, and the convergence of computers with other mobile devices, the potential of new types of virus & privacy threats has also increased.
Antivirus Software Suites need to accelerate improvement to be able to offer a solution that can detect and protect computers from existing or new virus. The increase in internet speed has boosted online video applications, video gaming & Video websites, resulting in more exposure of a computer to internet world and creating the need for better anti-virus software for protection.
Protecting your computer from a virus is becoming more difficult and needs much more attention than ever before. Leave your guard down and you can be infected with virus in a matter of seconds. Even corporate companies are now investing more for making their systems secure against spread of virus from internet sources.
The Internet provides a conduit through which viruses can spread from host to host with a very fast speed. UnLike in the past, when the computer virus came from floppy disks as the single points of virus attack, today we have to take guard against spreading of virus
but they now had to worry about email, email attachments, p2p sharing, instant messengers, software downloads, movies & movies files.
Today’s viruses can attack from multiple entry points, spread in many more ways and new ways.
Fortunatley, the continuing improvements in antivirus software has kept pace with current virus threats. The virus threat can be damaging to a point that you may loose all or part of the data on your hard disk. Recovery if possible is expensive. So Antivirus software is essential to a computer’s ability to protect data from viruses and other malicious programs. These products are designed to protect against the ability of a virus to enter a computer through email, web browsers, file servers and desktops. Additionally, these programs offer a centralized control feature that handle deployment, configuration and updating.
With the threat of a new generation of viruses able to attack in a multitude of ways, the approach of having just one antivirus software version has become outdated. You need to be confident that you have protected all aspects of your computer system from the desktop to the network, and from the gateway to the server. Consider a more comprehensive security system which includes several features including antivirus, firewall, content filtering, and intrusion detection. This type of system will make it more difficult for the virus to penetrate your system.
Only install antivirus software created by a well-known, reputable company.
Because new viruses erupt daily, it is important that you regularly update your antivirus software. Become familiar with the software’s real-time scan feature and configure it to start automatically each time you boot your computer. This will protect your system by automatically checking your computer each time it is powered up.
Make it a habit to always scan all new programs or files no matter from where they originate.
Exercise caution when opening binary, Word, or Excel documents of unknown sources especially if they were received during an online chat or as an attachment to an email.
Perform regular backups in case your system is corrupted. It may be the only way to recover your data if infected.
Recommended Antivirus Software:
McAfee - Antivirus Software and Intrusion Prevention Solutions
Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 - Trend Micro USA
AVG Free Advisor - Free antivirus and anti-spyware downloads
avast! antivirus software - computer virus, worm and Trojan …I have never used this
Kaspersky Lab: Antivirus software
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