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
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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.
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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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