Published on September 19, 2008 by admin
When I repair a computer to make it leaner and faster, Norton is removed and replaced with Grisoft’s AVG. Symantic’s Norton use to be everyone’s favorite antivirus software. But, for the last several years it has gotten too big and uses too many system resources.
Finally, someone at Symantic has taken notice. Walt Mossberg at All [...]
Tags: All Things Digital, AVG, Grisoft, Norton, Security Suite, spybot, Symantic, Walt Mossberg
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Published on September 10, 2008 by admin
Protect Yourself From Computer Hackers — Computer Scientists Say Hackers Prey On Those Who Don’t Protect Themselves
ScienceDaily — Computer scientists observe that the people most at risk for the loss of private information and other computer problems are those who create easily guessed passwords and user names. They advise creating and regularly updating complicated passwords [...]
Tags: antivirus, AVG, comodo, computer security, firewall
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Published on July 25, 2008 by admin
It seems every other day I have to advise someone on antivirus and malware protection programs. For several years now, every chance I get to work on someone’s computer, I try to leave it with Grisoft’s AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Lavasoft’s Ad-aware.
AVG will control viruses. Rarely will you need to manually remove a [...]
Tags: Ad-aware, AVG, cnet, security, spybot
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