If you are reading this then you are likely looking for
software. That being the case, there is a particular type of software that
you need on a home computer now that at one time wasn't all that important.
You need to have an anti-virus
software package installed on your machine in order to protect
it and not just while on the internet. I have worked for 2 different
"Fortune 500" companies and found more virus activity there in 3 years
in "protected environments" than I have seen on the internet in the same
period of time. Not to say that the internet is virus free, on the contrary,
it is far from it. If you look they are there, once in a blue moon they
turn up, but they are not widespread to the point that you are in danger
reading this page. The point I'm trying to make is this, If you drive a
car you wear a seatbelt(I hope), if you fish or ski you have lifejackets
in the boat(again, I hope), If you use a computer now a days the smart
thing to do is to protect it as well. I hope that you take this advice
in the manner it is intended, as I said on the first page "These pages
are designed to help make everyone's internet experience less challenging
and more enjoyable" And besides, you really don't want the machine you
use at home to "come down with some bug" from the clunker you use at work,
do you? This link
will take you to a page that has links to 8 different programs that are
modern protection systems and will help you in this area, the best advice
I could give on this is to visit the sites connected to that page read
the literature and decide for yourself what best suits your needs. You
probably will never need it, but it's a lot better to get an alert that
"the system has detected a virus infecting filename.ext and is deleting
it" or words to that effect than it is to get a message saying something
stupid or obscene when all you're trying to do is check your email.
;^)
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