Free Virus Protection Package for Windows - Conclusion
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Now when you look at the AVG Free software suite you may have noticed that it comes with a virus protection program of its very own. If you happen to be very hard up on hard drive space you could just use it, but personal use of both of the suites has shown that Clamwin can find things that AVG’s virus scan has missed in at least two separate cases. It may seem redundant, but it is better to be safe then it is to be sorry when it comes to these things.
Now that your system has some reliable protection you can sit back and relax, right? Just do whatever you want to online with no fear, eh? Well, no, you probably still can’t be an irresponsible user online. Skip the illicit downloads of music and movies. Do not open attachments from any email senders that you do not know and be generally skeptical of any shady sites that are known to be less than safe to visit.
To summarize my point, having protection is no reason to act irresponsibly online. If you fail to care for your computer systems, then in the end, no piece of software will be able to save you from your own folly.
If your Windows system is not protected right now, I suggest that you go and take care of these things right away. After all, you do not have any more excuses to let it slide even one more hour, and definitely not one more day. It won’t even cost you a dime, so you have no need to even get up to get your credit card or log into your PayPal account.
Let me answer one final objection you might have, even at this point, to getting protection for your Windows PC. No, the built-in protections that come with your system do not count as protection for your system. I don’t care how much hype it has going for it, because it also has one glaringly fatal flaw. It is a standard part of the operating system. As you may recall, I explained that one of the major reasons that Windows is such a tempting target is popularity. This means that any piece of software that comes with it is well known by the writers of and planned for, when the malicious code is penned.
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