Antivirus is still important

I occasionally read articles talking about the declining importance of antivirus. I disagree totally.  Here’s a great write-up from the Download Squad on some free antivirus programs.

I consider myself a more advanced user of the web and of computers. And the biggest, nastiest, sweatiest moments of my computer experience have generally centered around some sort of virus scare.

There is nothing scarier to me then when I’m running my maintenance scan and that warning starts blaring. The system on my main production computer is avast! When it detects a virus a huge nuclear warning like icon comes up with an accompanying siren. Yes, it grabs your attention.

I used to be a big Norton fan but they’ve lost my business over the years. The product got too slow and started to interfere with other valid software. So as usual, I was able to find some free alternatives. I can recommend avast! or AVG Free.

They’re at the top of the list from the download squad and that’s no surprise. They’re pretty popular. So if you’re reading one of those articles that says antivirus isn’t as important as it used to be because everything is cloud based…well, I might have a bridge to see you really cheap

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