Free Computer Virus Protection

There are many good and free computer virus protection programs.  AVG, ClamWare, PC Tools, Avast, Panda, Comodo, Avira, and F-Prot are some of the favorite free computer anti-virus protection programs.  From all of these AVG still appears to be the leader from all of the downloads and great reviews that it receives.  Many of the popular and

Free Computer Virus Protection

expensive commercial products have the tendency to slow down your computer because of all the unnecessary scanning they perform in the background.  I faithfully purchased the latest commercial products year after year until I could no longer deal with the lost performance issues they imposed on my computer.  I have enjoyed using AVG over the last few years because of the simplicity and speed of the product.  It will update daily any new virus signatures and provide excellent protection.  I really only use an anti-virus program to alert me of an infection.  Once infected my system could be compromised with a number of other undetectable programs, such as down-loaders and key-loggers, that will cause reinfections and possible loss of passwords and other valuable personal information, even if you are able to clean the viruses off your computer.  I use an imaging program that will quickly restore my computer to a known good configuration in a few minutes with the latest free computer virus protection installed.

Computer Imaging

Norton Ghost and Partimage are my two favorite computer imaging programs.  I prefer Norton Ghost because I can run it from a boot DOS partition and it runs very quickly.  I also use Norton Ghost to daily restore 35 lab computers that I maintain in a high school lab where the users have complete administrator rights that they abuse daily.  They need full access and admin rights to complete their Computer Repair labs.

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Free Computer Protection Software

There are many outstanding free computer protection software utilities.  Adaware by LavaSoft is one of the best

Free Computer Protection Software

free malware, spyware, and data mining protection utilities.  Malware is  short for malicious software and is designed secretly invade a computer.  Malware’s can monitor and send back to their host personal information and habits of the targeted user.  This information can be used to steal passwords, access accounts, and target users with advertising.  Adaware can run very quickly and remove hundreds of these performance robbing parasites from your operating system. If you haven’t already run Adaware you will be surprised on how many offending software devices have been installed in your computer as you casually and unsuspectingly browse the Internet.  Another problem area in the computer is the registry.

Computer Registry

The computer registry is a large data base of information containing all the software and hardware configuration settings.  Every time you install a new software program and then later remove it you will corrupt the registry and the

Computer Registry Cleaner

next time you start Windows you will notice that it is slower to start up.  This is due to the file pointers that are telling Windows to load files that are no longer there.  Glary Utilities is one of the best free registry cleaners available and it out performs some of the best commercial products.  This utility does a lot more by also deleting unnecessary files, like temp files, and freeing up valuable hard drive space.

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