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The simplest answer is the most obvious one- there are just more viruses out there for PCs. The question then becomes why are more viruses written for PCs than Macs? Do virus writers prefer to attack PCs? Is it easier to attack the windows operating system? Yes and yes. There are many perspectives from which you could analyze the question but the bottom line says it all. PCs occupy a significantly larger portion of the computer market and therefore provide more opportunity for an attacker to make money.

When deciding on a web hosting service a big consideration is whether they will handle all your security issues. Security leaks in Internet Explorer are a common way for malware (software designed to do bad things) to infect a computer and advertise on it. Ever see one of those ads that says, “Your computer might not be secure! Click here to test your protection?” I’d be loathing to try it, if I were you. With the rise of these types of security flaws, called social engineering exploits, there will always be a chance that any format, pc or Mac has a chance of exposure.

Virus protection software has included some new features over the years inspired by free anti-virus innovations. All lot of web hosting includes these software solutions to protect your valuable information. Some of the new anti-virus protection programs have a star graphic or check mark next to web search links to indicate the site you visit won’t be “phishing” for your information. This will also protect against the scariest threat of all on the internet- Identity theft.

There are so many different types of threats it can be really difficult to keep up. Rest assured if your web hosting keeps your operating system up to date, regularly update their anti-virus software, has a firewall ready, and uses some sort of ad-ware protection you can be confident that your service- pc or Mac is safe enough to do all of your daily business.

In the end, PCs are less expensive than Macs. They do basically the same things and work equally well in most respects. To prefer one over the other based on the fact one is less secure is more a reflection of your web hosting’s inability to protect you than on the inherent architecture differences. It makes more sense to say I like Macs because they look so much cooler than it does to say it’s because they are more secure.

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I think, Avira is the best free antivirus program for this year. Why not AVG? Yeah, AVG is good, more protection like e-mail, spyware, and search guard, but now I’m talking about antivirus, Avira Personal give more protection to viruses, trojans, worms, but lack about spyware and other threat (sob). Avira give quicker complete scan and lighter memory usage, below 10K, AVG 8.0 Free eats about 30~50K, this is also my reason to change my mind to Avira.

Avira is easy to use. The realtime guard is good, the reaction of the guard is fast and will show you a window that give you an information and choices, what do you want to that file, quarantine it, deny it, and many more.

Unfortunately, this antivirus have some…. yeah, for me, many false detection. I have about 14 keygen/crack program and 2 of them are detected as trojans, and of course, thanks to the fast realtime guard, when it comes to false detection, I choose ignore because I know it’s a fine & worked crack, but because “it’s” fast realtime guard, the window pop-up again, before I can click the crack. I don’t know how to solve this fast detection, I just have to click faster than the realtime guard detect it and it’s mean 5 times to choose ignore and 1 click to execute the crack, total 6 clicks to execute the fine crack. In complete scan progress, it always wait the confirmation from user when it detect threat and pause the scan, so you can’t leave the computer for a long time, because if it detect a threat, it will pause the scan and wait for your confirmation, the scan can be damn long if you leave your computer for a long time, this is where AVG is better at, you can wait or leave your computer for a long time and when it finished, you can see the detailed information.

So, my conclusion is….

If you want an antivirus with complete protection and free, choose AVG. If you want a light, fast, free and good detection antivirus program, I recomend you Avira Personal Edition Classic. I just like a light, fast, and free antivirus, so I choose Avira AntiVir Personal, but if AVG is lighter, I will choose it. LOL

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Nowadays, computer viruses are making people frustated. Data lost, hang, slowpoke performance, and error message are some “signs” that your computer is infected by viruses, not always, but often. So, now you are using an anti virus. But again, your computer still get infected, where’s the problem? I have to tell you, anti virus doesn’t guarantee your computer is free from threats like viruses and so on problems, they just help you to become more aware to threats like that. So now, the problems are inside you, here’s some tips from my experience about viruses, hope that these can help you.

1. If you install antivirus program, make sure it’s up to date
2. Recently, many viruses come with auto play action, so disable your auto play feature can help you to prevent these kind of viruses, but I don’t disable it, because I always cancel it, if you never use this feature like me, click cancel button is enough, if you do like I do, you don’t need to disable auto play, just click cancel
3. You have an antivirus, so use it. Always scan any removable disks that plugged into your computer
4. I recommend you use windows explorer instead do double-click at removable disks, it’s more secure
5. Reveal extension for known types, this can be done with just a bit change. Just go to control panel or my computer or whatever, just open a window, from menu click Tools –> Folder Options –> View tab –> uncheck Hide extensions for known file types. This can reveal file extensions for known types, for example in an application you will see .exe or in Microsoft Word documents you will see .doc after the filename, like filename.exe and filename.doc. With this way, you can see wether the file is virus or not, for example you see a file with MS Word icon, but the filename is filename.doc.exe, see the different? You will see .exe, it’s an application, not a MS Word document file format or you see a folder icon but the name is folder_name.exe, or right-click the folder or file and click properties, you can see their type, folder is folder and .exe is application
6. Turn on system restore for system partition, just some viruses can be inactive when you restore your computer to previous time before you got “present”. After you restore it, see what happen, if the virus is inactive, update your antivirus and scan your computer, the virus is still reside in your computer, but not activated yet
7. If virus has been activated in your computer, scan first before you use system restore, but in safe mode. When the computer start, press F8 button and choose “Safe Mode” and log in with administrator account

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