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Antivirus: The most dangerous threat to computer

Written by OSAblog on Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Anti spy ware, firewall and anti virus are the three vital software, which help to protect computer. If we don’t activate them while going online our PC may get infected with malicious virus within eight seconds. Yes, eight seconds is enough for world’s fastest virus Sasser to attack your PC and then you know the consequence.

Anti virus spy ware acts as a spy ware remover. You can find the Internet Explorer anti virus which is better known as IE anti virus from different spots of web. It is a fake spy ware remover, which may disturb you with nonstop messages asking you to download anti spy ware program to save your computer from getting infected with spy ware.

You should be careful while watching movie, which has released online currently. Though a number of sites are quite safe but few of them can be malicious. If you need to open a file in media player to download something you may find some false codes, which are usually intended to keep a tab on the person using the computer. These are the actual spy ware programmes. Your computer may also get infected with spy ware through Internet explorer as it is quite weak to control ActiveX and cannot resist spy ware, ad ware and mal ware. If you accidentally redirect yourself to any bad website it will be known as browser hijacking and you will end up downloading an Internet Explorer anti virus.

It is quite risky for a computer if it contains the ant virus spy ware. As this spy ware constantly collects information, the speed of processing and Internet becomes slow. It is very difficult to remove the virus. Some times registry of the computer may get tempered while removing it.

You can use SUPERAnti Spy ware, Spyboat Search and Destroy, Ad ware Pro as anti spy ware software. Depending on the type of ant virus you may have to install more than one of these spy wares. There are number of people who in spite of having protection software remove spy ware every week from their computers. They do not know how to protect their PCs from the attack of malicious software. So, it is necessary for the computer users to know how to protect their PCs form spy ware.  There are number of spy ware blockers like Spy ware Doctor which can help your computer form the attack of spy ware.

There are a number of online PC support companies who can help you to remove spy ware, ad ware and mal ware and assure you a safe and virus free computing.

 

 

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