The Windows XP Security Series Part 3 - AntiVirus
Welcome to part three of my little series. Today, I'm gonna point you in a direction that is virus free! Viruses and others of the like are very dangerous and can destroy your PC in seconds or over time. They can also act as backdoors for hacker or use your machine as a host to infect more PCs. So I got one question.
Do you have an antivirus program?
You probably do, but in case you don't (or want a free one), may I suggest AOL Anti Virus Shield, or Avast! Home Edition. Both work extremely well and are, of course, free. Read my past AOL AVS post here. Both have real-time and scanning features but AOL AVS (made by Kaspersky but branded by the evil AOL) is a tad better. The reason being that you can have yet another spyware protector in AVS along with antivirus capabilities.
While that's totally grand, I've learned that one is never enough. Yeah, having one antivirus on your PC is usually just fine, it never hurts to have a backup. For that, I suggest ClamWin Free Antivirus or it's USB drive portable brother: ClamWin Portable. Run AOL AVS's virus scan about once a week and ClamWin right after.
Oh, wait! There's one more! Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool gets the last of anything that happened to get through that one-two punch.
With these 3 tools, you can't go wrong. There's no way any nasty virus, trojan, WORM, or otherwise, can get on - and keep on - your PC
Click the following to go to their respective homepages:
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