Essential Anti-Virus and Spyware Programs

I’m amazed at the number of people I talk to who don’t keep their Anti-Virus definitions up to date. They’ll get Norton Anti-virus with their machine and when the trial period is up, they don’t feel like paying to keep the definitions current.

Well if you don’t want to pay there are two alternatives that will allow you to keep your definitions current.

The first is

I’m amazed at the number of people I talk to who don’t keep their Anti-Virus definitions up to date. They’ll get Norton Anti-virus with their machine and when the trial period is up, they don’t feel like paying to keep the definitions current.

Well if you don’t want to pay there are two alternatives that will allow you to keep your definitions current.

The first is AVG Anti-Virus by Grisoft http://www.grisoft.com http://www.grisoft.com/doc/40/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

The second is Avast http://avast.com/index.html http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

These are both free for home use.

One also needs to protect their computer from Spyware.

I used to use Spybot: Search and Destroy and Adaware.

I have now switched to Spysweeper by WebRoot. This program requires a paid subscription to keep spyware definitions up to date.

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