are anti-virus important?
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absolutely.as they protect your computer from virus
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virus is an unwanted harmful program.many programs are useful (eg Internet Explorer,WinZip,Winamp) but some are made do harm.to protect us Antiviruses,Firewalls and other softwares/hardwares are used .
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Here is my ideal Anti-virus :\n\nAn Anti-virus program which is sized as much as your power point presentation files, needs no yearly subscription, and that protects mobile phones, PDAs, iPods, PCs, Linux boxes and Macs not only from known viruses but also from future epidemics of trojans and other malware that is yet to be invented.\n\nBelieve it or not, this unique Antivirus has been invented already!!\nThis new Anti-virus technology "Rudra" unlike the existing  signature-based╝ technology utilizes  a different approach to identify digital intrusions ie. heuristic approach that is based on a set of loose rules and probabilities to identify malicious code and which is in turn based on key preventive feature which takes a snapshot of the device to be protected in complete detail before any infection has occurred and then continues to monitor and scan the system for any suspect changes thereby protecting from known viruses and from any unknown malicious codes (malware) including trojans, worms, spyware and keyloggers.\n\nThis feature eliminates the need to be continously updated. Also this technology requires system to be totally free of virus before installing this program \n\nFor details about this Antivirus technology, see the source links-
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AVAST ------->   Free virus protection for your home PC\n\nNew viruses are being found "in the wild" all the time. Further, the speed at which these new viruses spread is increasing all the time. A key problem is not that antivirus programs do not detect such viruses, but the fact that most users do not use any antivirus program at all or, perhaps worse, the antivirus software and / or virus definitions database is out of date.\n\nALWIL Software, the producer of avast!, decided in June 2001 to help to solve this situation by offering avast! Home Edition free of charge for home users who do not use their computer for profit. To get industry leading antivirus protection for your home PC, download the software, and then register it.
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In addition to having an anti virus, you have to practice safe surfing. This means no limewire, or clicking on email attachments, etc.\n\nAnti virus companies like norton can only publish the signatures of virus that they know, and have calculated a defense against these viruses. New viruses in the wild (known as zero day attacks or exploits) will get right by them.\n\nAlso, the virus writers know that the majority of people use norton, so they specifically target ways around norton. This is why you dont hear a lot about apple viruses. Its not worth their time to write viruses for macs. Theres just not a lot of them out there for it to be worth anything to them. They want to have their 15 minutes of fame.\n\nSo, zero day viruses - there's no way to protect yourself other than safe computing. You might also want to do what I did and dump norton in favor of a lesser known anti virus program so you stay under the radar. I prefer Avast. It not only updates daily, but has a feature that protects your computer if something is happening that looks like virus activity...not just scanning the files against their virus signatures. Its free for home use (less the script protection) and I highly recommend it. Its a small program with only a few background tasks running. Norton is a CPU hog.\n\nNow, removing all traces of Norton it not too easy. There are 3 or 4 items in the add/remove group. Search the norton site for full removal instructions prior to actually doing it.\n\nAnother really good free antivirus is AVG. You can find it easily. You can only have one AV running at a time.\n\nLastly, some spyware and trojans that are not truly virus, CAN install viruses. Make sure you also run anti spy and anti adware. Unlike AV and firewall, you can have multiple antispy and anti ad programs running.\n\nHope this helps.
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no computer is safe from viruses.  You still need a firewall and anti-virus programs.  It is just that most virus-writers (crackers) do not write for a mac.
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I don't recommend installing more then one antivirus on the computers because:\n1. your pc will work very slow\n2. if the two antiviruses block eatch other you won't have any security!!!\n3. in some cases it most surelly will freeze the pc minutes after booting\nWhy have 2 when you can install one which is very good?
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Read this review/comparison.  Should help you in your decision. \n\nArticle: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125817,00.asp\nProduct comparison: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125857,00.asp\n\nIf you just want an antivirus, here's their comparison of just those:\nhttp://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124475,00.asp
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chk out of viruses on your computer run anti virus
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Antivirus softwares are only effective if you update them daily.Even then the computer is still vulnarable because the antivirus cannot detect threats from viruses that was made just 5 minutes ago and released on to the net.\n\nAntivirus sometimes itself can act strange(ex:it will detect its own files as viruses, try to clean them and get corrupted).Sometimes Antiviruses takes up a lot of RAM (as it has 4 to 6 programs of itself running in the background) This may cause freeze.\n\nMost viruses are designed to work in background pulling as much less RAM as possible and if it has a smart programming it will mix itslef with Your Files on the Hard Disk.\n\nI suggest goto run > type: sfc /scannow \nThis will repair some win files damaged by viruses.
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There is no single anti virus software that finds all the viruses. The best is still a combination of different products.
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Your are correct to remove exsisting antivirus before installing a new one. Also only one antivirus should be installed on an operationg system at a time.\n\nYou will most likely have one of 3 antivirus. Norton, PC-Cillin, or MacAfee. The newer versions require a removal program available at the products website. I believe however these programs can be un-installed from the Add/Remove Program in the Control Panel.\n\nThe antivirus you have choosen to install, eTrust EZ Antivirus, form CA is a good program. They are a well respected member of the Security Community. With the programs you need to protect your computer these days I would not recommend it unless you computer is a P-III and has min. of 256mb of RAM. In conjunction to the antivirus there are several other antispyware programs that should be up and running.\n\nI would like you to consider freeware alternative to CA product. They demand less resources and are as I noted free.\n\nhttp://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3616.html\n\n\nGood luck.
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From my professional experience as a consultant:\n\nNone of the Antivirus programs are perfect.  No one package "gets 'em all".  The real question to be answered here is which one is the friendliest to my computer yet still does an acceptable job of detecting viruses?  If I had to choose between Norton or AVG the answer would be AVG every time.  Norton (and McAfee) are notorious for screwing up computers and making user's lives miserable in other ways.  AVG is fast, clean, and does a good job.  It's also free if you're a home user.
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Neither program has a very high virus detection rate. Expect them to not detect about 10% of all viruses. Some paid solutions such as Kaspersky miss less than one half of one percent.\n\nThat being said I use Avast (you can't beat the price). And it uses about 15 to 18 mb on my comp.
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Viruses come in all shapes and danger levels.  There is everything from trojans to everday viruses.  Most of these either alter data on your computer or they gather data from your computer for a certain person or company.  Either way they are dangerous.  There are some major ones taht alter boot data and cause your computer to no longer be able to start up properly.  Many of them some from websites without you knowing or from downloads (which you never download from someone that you do not know).  Get good antivirus software and keep it up to date and you should have no problems with it.\n\nOh, and most boot-up viruses do nto go away by reformatting your hard drive as they will "hide" in your RAM chips.  There are some sneaky ones out there, so make sure that you keep a good antivirus program on your computer, keep it active, and keep it up to date.
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Yes! Running Two antivirus software means... letting Trojans to enter.. your computer they'll start scanning same time slows down and takes registry space... conflict each other... and create Huge Problems\n\nhowever it's strongly recommended to install two anti-spywares or Firewalls if you don't want to get infected....\nUse avast..... it's schedule time boot scanning is Best Feature.... if compared to any other anti-viruses... features and it won't slow down... your computer...\n                            I don't mean Avg is bad.. or won't provide defense.. but those two features lacks in Avg or everythin is =
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I think the "possible-virus" is just a warning that there may be a possible virus. (email?)  I don't think that is the name.  In any event, anti-virus software should clean all viruses you might have.