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Reason for me why do i use AVG antivirus program (free edition).

2009-07-31T22:12:00.001+08:00

When i have a computer, I really do number one action for my computer is install an antivirus program. And i choose AVG, The antivirus program that famous at my place. AVG is really trusted to protect the computer. Here AVG used from older edition to the new is AVG 8.5 ... AVG is great antivirus for free edition version, AVG for computer here is ligthweight program, have complete protection, auto and manual update , and the important is free real time protection from threat.
Now, AVG 8.5 antivirus , the new antivirus program version from AVG is more then protect from virus but protect from spyware too. I can see from AVG 8.5 user interface, there is everything information about AVG 8.5 are security components and status overview, computer scanner, and update now. Just click that menu and i can see the reaction is easy to understand ... ya AVG 8.5 is easy to use. If I always do update, important and recommended is 'update now' use direct online update cause more complete and secure update for me but if you don't have internet connection is okay to use manual update, I can see AVG 8.5 is update the security component and status overview ... so my computer always protected from newest threat. AVG always save me.

Top 10 Free Antivirus Applications by Amit Bhawani

2009-07-16T19:57:00.001+08:00

There are numerous Antivirus applications available online which you can install on your PC and stay secure but if you are looking for options which are free and can still keep you secured then here is a list of the best Antivirus applications. I made some searches and found the following softwares which are free, though if you feel there any other better ones you can always recommend them.

AVG Anti-Virus (Freeware and Shareware) – Website
NOD32 (Shareware) – Website
Avast Antivirus (Freeware and Shareware) – Website
Avira AntiVir (Freeware and Shareware) – Website
Kaspersky Anti-Virus (Shareware) – Website
ClamWin Free Antivirus – Website
BitDefender Free Edition – Website
ZoneAlarm Free Anti-Virus Software – Website
Panda Antivirus – Website
Comodo Antivirus – Website

AntiVirus Software - Why Your PC Needs It by RickHendershot

2009-07-03T12:51:00.001+08:00

If your PC is connected to the internet for browsing the web or sending and receiving email, you need antivirus protection. This applies whether you have a dial-up connection or a high-speed connection such as DSL or cable.

The very fact that you are connected to a public network along with millions of others means that your PC is vulnerable. It is open to receiving thousands of little software programs that are specifically designed to either harm, disrupt, or exploit your computer.

** Protecting your computer against malicious intruders

Any time you receive a file from some other source on the web, there is a chance that file will be "infected" with a virus, or will contain an attached bit of adware or spyware. That applies to viewing web pages, and receiving email messages. It also applies to downloading image, audio, and video files.

Email attachments are especially notorious for harboring viruses and malware. You receive a message that has an attachment beckoning you to double-click on it. When you do so, it installs a little program that resides somewhere deep within your PC, ready to do whatever it has been programmed to do -- whether that is spying and reporting on your computer habits, hijacking your home page and redirecting you to some other site, or popping up aggravating ads for gambling or pornography sites.

Viruses go well beyond that. They are intentionally designed to run programs that damage important operating system files, and usually have some way of exploiting your email program to send the infected message to hundreds of others in your contact list. That is why they are called "viruses" -- because they can spread like wildfire to thousands and even millions of computers.

** Antivirus programs

Antivirus programs like Norton Antivirus 2009 were designed to do just what their name implies -- to guard against viruses. They do this by using a four part process. First when the anti-virus program is installed it "cleans" the system. Every file on your hard drive is scanned to see if it is infected. When an infected file is found it is either "quarantined" or deleted.

Second, the antivirus program stands guard and automatically scans any new files, email messages or web page files that are downloaded or copied to your computer's memory. If any of these files are found to be infected, the antivirus program blocks them from being copied.

Third, the antivirus program runs periodic scans -- usually every few days -- of your entire file system to make sure no infected files have made it past the automatic scan.

And fourth, the antivirus program has a system for being automatically updated. Since new viruses are being created every day, it is important to update your system of protection every day. Usually this is done by automatically downloading and installing updates to the virus descriptions.

** Guarding against spyware

Spyware is a relatively new problem confronted by the PC owner. The point of spyware is to monitor your keystroke patterns and use this information for some commercial or advertising purpose. The spyware program is usually installed along with some freeware such as a music or video sharing program. The user does not consent to the installation and is often not even aware of it.

Some spyware programs are relatively harmless, but others can have a dramatic impact on your computer's performance -- even bogging it down completely.

Newer versions of an antivirus program such as Norton Antivirus 2009 detect and remove spyware, keystroke loggers and other unwanted monitoring software. They also come with regular updates to stop new spyware from infecting your computer.

Antivirus Update - Why Should You Update Your Antivirus Software? by Anu Kool

2009-06-09T22:50:00.000+08:00

You took your time to research which among the existing antivirus software around best suit your computer and your usage. You took time to ask technologically savvy friends and relatives and you even visited some well known tech-related forums to get unbiased information about antivirus.

When you finally chose one antivirus program, you ordered your program online or you went to the local computer shop near your area. You install it on your computer and you leave it on working on the background while you do your usual stuff on your PC. You feel you have done your very best to protect your computer from those menacing viruses, Trojan horses, worms and malwares.

So you became tremendously disappointed when your computer suddenly crashes and you just realized it was infected by a virus and the virus basically wiped out your entire hard drive, taking with it your 1st year old baby's video on his first foot steps and that presentation for that client you were eyeing to bag, a presentation you've been working on since last month.

You try to consider where you went wrong. You feel you have bought the best of the best in terms of antivirus programs and you know you have turned it on for the past few days. What went wrong? Well, quite frankly, you just forgot the one thing that you should not have forgotten above anything else.

Antivirus update.

Once you have purchased an antivirus program, you have to make sure you do an antivirus update as often as you can, maybe even daily so what you may want to do is to put the antivirus update setting of your program in automatic. Some programs have their antivirus update settings turned on but some softwares are placed on manual mode so you may want to check your program's user manual just to make sure.

But why is an antivirus update important?

Initially, your antivirus program has set definitions for all sorts of worms, viruses, malwares, Trojan horses, bugs and other uninvited softwares. However, due to man's innovation (or sometimes boredom), new viruses and worms are introduced in a basis so frequent that your antivirus program needs an antivirus update to make sure it is up to date to the definitions of new viruses and worms.

Once your program is updated with the latest antivirus updates, then your computer is virtually safe from the latest line of computer bugs and traps. True there are some programs that have sophisticated intelligence that even if the virus is not defined in their knowledge, so long as it behaves in a "virus-like" manner, it is dinged and may be up for deletion, cleaning or is deemed for vault placing, depending on the action you would command it to do. However, this occurs in a very shot-in-the-dark manner as you can only hope that the new virus will behave like virus before it. Doing an antivirus update will make you very sure that you and your program are very much prepared for all those viruses and worms.

How to update Free Anti virus with manual procedure ?

2009-06-04T20:52:00.000+08:00

AVG update from directory :

If you want to update AVG 8.5 Free Edition from local storage (CD, directory on HDD, USB Flash disc) you can do it this way:

* Open AVG User Interface

* From top menu "Tools" select "Update from directory" option

* Navigate to the folder where AVG update files are stored and click "OK"

The procedure for the manual update (IVDF Fusebundle) :

Please go through the following steps to update your AntiVir Software on a PC without internet access.

1. Download the latest virus definition file (IVDF) on a PC with internet access directly from the Avira website.

For Windows 2000/XP/Vista please use the IVDF (Unicode) at:
http://dl.antivir.de/down/vdf/ivdf_fusebundle_nt_en.zip

2. Copy the downloaded file to a portable media storage such as an USB Stick or a CD-ROM for transferring it to the PC without internet access.

Note: Extracting of the ZIP file is not necessary.

3. Insert the media storage into the PC without internet access.

4. Start the AntiVir Software and go to the menu Update and select Manual Update.

5. Select the downloaded IVDF file from your media storage and click Open.

6. The message The virus definition file has been successfuly updated. appears, AntiVir is now up to date.

Note: Please keep in mind that an effective protection against new threats is only possible with an up to date virus definition file. Update your AntiVir Software in regular time intervals.

Conficker and Kido - Remove the Great and Terrible Conficker here. By: Konstantin Artemev

2009-05-30T22:24:00.000+08:00

Conficker is very difficult to uncover for your network operators because of conficker’s complex malicious algorithms. This year conficker has attacked from 9 to 15 million of computers all over the world. Since SQL Slammer in 2003 conficker is supposed to be one of the most widespread spyware. The unified armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany reported about conficker infection in their network on 2 February of 2009. The French Navy was attacked on the 15th of January, 2009 and was hardly recovered after several aircrafts were forced to land on several airbases in France.

British House of Commons has been attacked with conficker a little while since, as British newspaper reports. The UK Ministry of Defence reported about the virus in their administative networks. Conficker agitated network death in many business and state organizations. Various Royal Navy warships and Royal Navy submarines, and hospitals across the city of Sheffield turned to be down under conficker’s attack. Conficker A happened on November,21, 2009 and there is no treatment against conficker A since then.

Imagine yourself, if such big and complex networks as British, French and other armed forces couldn’t resist against conficker attack how can your little defenseless computer resist against such danger?Like hepatite or bird flu, conficker has several subtypes. Confickers A, B, C, D download daily from any of 250 pseudorandom domains over 8 top-level domains. Conficker B came out on the Web stage on December,29, 2009. Conficker A treats HTTP for its distribution and downloads itself from trafficconverter.biz. Conficker B developes DLL-based AutoRun trojan on attached removable drives.

MS08-067 vulnerability in Server service is the main target of conficker A and, unfortunately, there is no simple way to escape this type of conficker. Blocking DNS lookups and disabling autoupdate can help to prevent your PC against conficker B and C, but conficker D does an in-memory patch of DNSAPI.DLL to block lookups of anti-malware related web sites. Conficker B and conficker C use dictionary attack on ADMIN shares as their infection vector. All web sites associated with anti malicious programs find themselves blocked or inaccessible. There are five basic symptoms, combination of which gives you a right to suspect of conficker virus onto your computer.

Disabling certain system services such as Automatic Updates, operating system Defender and others must make you become alerted. Congestion on local networks disturbs you more and more. If you noticed that your account lockout policies were disturbed you should certainly to verify other signs of conficker onto your computer. Conficker Fast Heal is an easy and fast solution for all users, noticed conficker happenance onto their PCs. You can prevent conficker virus with the facilitate of high quality anti virus and anti spyware such as True Sword from Security Stronghold.

Traditional Antivirus Programs Useless Against New Unidentified Viruses! by: Jason Frovich

2009-05-26T16:10:00.000+08:00

Every now and then you can read about a new virus and the damage it causes. The millions viruses costs companies each time they strike. It is however not only companies that are suffering from the damages caused by viruses. A virus can be just as damaging if not more for a private Internet user by destroying important documents, family pictures and everything else you keep on your computer. Therefore should no home computer be without a good virus protection software. This way you can protect your computer and yourself from loosing data, corrupted hard drives and a number of other problems. There are several anti virus programs available of which some are free and some are not. You should however always remember that you might get what you paying for, meaning that the service and the updates might be better for the paid alternatives and thereby protect your computer better.

When using a virus program you should try to find one that is fast, reliable and able to discover as many viruses as possible. Whether it is fast or not might seem unimportant if you don't use your computer that much, but you will find that an anti virus program that scans your computer faster will be used more frequently and thereby giving you a better protection. If an anti virus program should be effective when protecting your computer it needs to be able to recognise all viruses, and since new viruses are constantly created this means that the database for the program has to be constantly updated. You should therefore consider how often the different anti virus programs update their databases when choosing which antivirus program to get. You should always make sure to keep your virus program up-to-date.

One of the best anti virus programs on the market today is Panda Active Scan Anti Virus Software Online which has an unrivalled capacity for detecting viruses and other threats online which is the most common path for viruses to reach our computer. Almost all viruses today are spread through the Internet. Panda Antivirus Pro 2009 is easy to install and once it is installed it finds and remove viruses automatically. Panda Anti Virus also automatically updates itself if you want it to. In other words: Panda Anti Virus is an anti virus program that manages itself and makes sure that it is up to date and able to keep your computer safe from viruses. Panda Antivirus Pro 2009 scans your entire computer, including the program itself, to make sure that a virus can't infect any part of the computer. Panda Anti Virus doesn't just search for virus, it also search your computer for a number of other security risks like spy wares and Trojans.

Panda Anti Virus contains TruPrevent Technologies. TruPrevent Technologies is a system designed to help Panda Anti Virus protect your computer against unknown viruses and intruders. The user can choose whether they want to use TruPrevent Technologies or not. The technology has been implemented to allow Panda Anti Virus to protect your computer against new virus since a new virus can spread world wide within a few hours. The TruPrevent Technologies allows Panda Anti Virus to detect and block viruses even if they are not yet included in the virus database. This allows Panda Antivirus Pro 2009 to keep your computer safe against all viruses and not only the ones that are already identified, since you might encounter a new virus despite the fact that Panda updates their database at least once a day. Old anti virus programs - and most of the modern anti virus programs as well - can only protect you against already identified viruses. The ability to protect against unknown viruses is what Panda Anti Virus a superior choice for an anti virus program.

Panda Anti Pro 2009 does not only offer superior security and very user friendly functionality. It also comes with tech support where experts answer any questions that might arise.

All personal computers should have virus protection since you otherwise risk loosing important document, family pictures etcetera and if you are looking for user friendliness and a superior security Panda Anti Virus is your best choice.

Why Use Antivirus Software? by: Eric Koshinsky

2009-05-25T21:59:00.000+08:00

This is a really simple question to answer – you need to use antivirus software to protect your own computer, and to prevent your computer from being used to pass on infections to other machines without your knowledge. If you use the internet and you don’t take precautions, you’re going to get infected. And you’ll infect others, including those you care about most like your friends, family, and business contacts because their information is in your email address book and other files on your computer.

If you don’t care about infecting others, let’s look at the economic argument for a moment. You have a computer that must have cost at least $600, and perhaps as much as 4,000. On top of that you’ll have a monitor for which you paid between $250 and $1000, and you’re running software costing at least $500 dollars. If you have business or specialist packages installed then I’m guessing you may have invested $5000 in software alone. You will probably pay upwards of 25 dollars a month for your internet connection. And if you store personal data on your PC, it is probably worth more than money to you.

So you’ve got equipment worth something like $1400 if you’re computing on the cheap, right up to (and beyond) $10,000 if you flex your wallet a little. Think of this as being the same in price as an acceptable older used car right up to the pretty good used car you could buy for ten thousand dollars.

Now imagine that the car had all the locks removed and could be started without a key – and of course you could paint “STEAL ME” on it for good measure. That makes a lot of sense..yea right!

Having a computer that does not have up-to-date antivirus and firewall protection is pretty much exactly the same. You are simply asking for trouble!

This kind of trouble doesn’t need to be invited twice, because viruses, worms, Trojans and all the rest, are designed to find unprotected computers and attack them. They don’t seek out protected computers! If they find one, they simply move on.

Remember, computer viruses are designed, they don’t just happen by accident. Because human intelligence is behind the viruses they develop quickly, use surprising and unexpected tactics, and they hit us where we are weakest.

So if you can afford over $1500 on a computer and $300 a year on internet connections, you can definitely afford another $50 to make your computer safe (and prevent it from being used to spread viruses and Trojan horses behind your back).

If you’re not convinced about the cost argument, consider the case of David L. Smith - the self-confessed author of the infamous Melissa worm. When he was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment and a fine of $5,000 in New Jersey, the court adjudged Smith's worm to have caused more than £55 million pounds worth of damage!

Against the cost we stand to lose, the risk of losing our priceless personal files, and being blamed by friends and relatives for infecting their machines, the top antivirus software programs cost as little as 2 months internet connection. They all include constant and unlimited automatic updates that keep your system safe and clean.

And if you weren’t convinced by the good citizen argument that you should protect your computer to stop others getting infected, then it might be worth mentioning that there is a movement to make people not using antivirus software legally responsible should their machine be used as part of an attack (even if they did not know about it). (Note: I’m not personally a part of such a movement, but it does have its merits!)

So, be a good citizen whilst protecting your wallet and your sanity by installing good antivirus software and keeping it up to date.

Save Your Computer With Antivirus Programs - by: Erik Nielsen

2009-05-19T11:06:00.000+08:00

Specially designed softwares affect stability of the systems, and these software programmes may be malwares. Antivirusprograms consist of computer programs that aim to identify and reduce computer viruses and other harmful softwares or malwares. An infected system or machine shows certain suspicious behaviors, which seems irregular or abnormal. Several antivirusprograms and anti-malware programs can be of great use for preventing the required attempts of these viruses to affect the nature of the system. If one program attempts to write data on an executable program, the antivirusprograms can determine this suspicious behavior, alert a user and ask for further directions. Anti-malwares are exceedingly essential as nowadays with the technological advancement it is necessary to communicate electronically.

For personal computer users it is essential to prevent the viruses. Anti viruses are essential as these are designed to keep personal computer users aware about the latest signatures within the anti-malware industry. Anti–malwares cautiously examines the files and scans and checks if any viruses are found. The deletions of the found viruses are possible using the anti-malwares. Antivirusprograms are extensively used for better maintenance of systems. With the spread of viruses using electronic mail, their infection vector could be spread far more inexpensively and effectively. Without the need to install additional antivirus software, the attachment can be well scanned before downloading. Besides installing the anti-malware, user education is extremely important. As malware is specific software, designed to damage a computer system without the owner’s consent, it has been named after blending the words “malicious” and “software”. Many ordinary computer users are till date not aware about the antivirusprograms. Basically, the expression is a mixed term used by the computer professionals. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that the normal computer users should be well aware about the viruses, which immensely affects the computers. The term malware has been newly coined. In the past few years, the fact has been revealed that the main intention of creating the malware is for enhancing financial frauds. This has been a major cause behind the popularity of anti-malware. As most computers consist of bugs, malware can effectively track them. So, it is indeed essential to effectively track the self-replicating viruses using the anti–malware. Antivirusprograms help in maintenance of the system’s security and moreover it protects against the malwares.

It is most crucial to note that malware is a broader category of virus, which can be highly detrimental for a computer system. Some viruses are programmed to spoil the computer by damaging programs, deleting files, or even reformatting the hard disk. Others are not designed to do any damage, but purely to replicate themselves and make their presence known by presenting text, video, audio messages etc. To prevent data loss and system crashes antivirusprograms are of high importance. Computer viruses can be also spreaded through messaging. To ensure that the computer is protected from malwares, a working antivirus program is highly necessary.