I find that a number of people come to me when they have questions about their computer. Often this occurs when a problem as developed. I’ve learned overtime that one of the first questions that I should always ask is- Do you have antivirus software on your computer?
Unbelievably in this day and age when huge denial of service attacks on big companies like Yahoo.com and Google.com commonly make the news, these people often tell me that they don’t have antivirus software on their computers. Why not? With all the spam we get and websites set up to load Trojan worms onto our computers when we view a site or open an email I can’t understand why anyone would leave themselves vulnerable to leaving their computer and precious data open to that risk. Don’t they know that if a virus attack is bad enough it could wipe out their whole computer leaving the information on their hard drive useless and almost impossible to retrieve?
I always recommend that they get an anti-virus software package immediately so that they can check their computer for virus, Trojans and even spyware that might be affecting their computers performance. It’s so easy! Just click here and you can have a Norton Antivirus Download. It’s that simple. Why risk your computers data?
I use Norton Antivirus myself and I find it very easy to use. I’ve set it up to monitor my browsing and my email as it comes in, and to be on the safe side I have it scan my whole computer once a week. I haven’t had a single problem since I’ve been using Norton Antivirus. If you’d like to learn more about Norton Antivirus I suggest that you read Norton Internet Security 2007 articles and other info: and make your decision after viewing all of the information on that page.
I can usually fix computers for them, but what kills me is that most of the time, if they had antivirus software on their computer in the first place I wouldn’t have to.
You could also go all the way and get a Mac.
OpenBSD is better
Norton has not been doing very well in independant reviews on the last few years. Check out some of the free AV products that are available like Avast, AVG and Avira. Trust me, they work great and dont cost $25 – $50 per year like Norton or McAfee.
You are so right about the lack of knowledge for computer protection software for anit virus, anti spyware and firewalls. So many people would not have to spend hundreds of dollars getting them fixed.
The new 2010 version of norton is really great. I am using it on one of my computers and it works fast and don’t take as much memory as it did before.