Free Computer Protection » Free Computer Virus Protection http://freecomputerprotection.net Free computer protection software. Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:25:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Free Computer Virus Protection http://freecomputerprotection.net/free-computer-virus-protection/free-computer-virus-protection/ http://freecomputerprotection.net/free-computer-virus-protection/free-computer-virus-protection/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:20:31 +0000 gf http://freecomputerprotection.net/?p=22 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 [...]]]> 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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The best free computer protection software is often better than the commercial products.  For example AVG is highly rated and provides free computer anti-virus protection which usually receives better reviews than Norton or McAfee.  Norton and McAfee computer protection software can slow your computer to a crawl with all the unnecessary email, [...]]]>

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The best free computer protection software is often better than the commercial products.  For example AVG is highly rated and provides free computer anti-virus protection which usually receives better reviews than Norton or McAfee.  Norton and McAfee computer protection software can slow your computer to a crawl with all the unnecessary email, website, file scanning, and background checks that run constantly.  AVG free computer virus protection software is better optimized and will not give you large performance hits like most of the more popular utilities do.  Another great firewall utility is ZoneAlarm free computer protection software.  After Windows XP finally provided a firewall with their second service pack they made a huge mistake and only turned half on it on.  It only protected inbound threats and not outbound.  If you computer becomes compromised you could loose all your important personal information and never know it left your computer, because Windows does not protect you from any outbound threats.  The security community was again very disappointed in Microsoft.  However, ZoneAlarm is a highly rated firewall utility that provides some of the best inbound and outbound firewall

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protection for free.  ZoneAlarm will even tell you if a program or file has changed and then ask you permission to run it.  This protects you from viruses modifying common programs that you might run unknowingly with a new virus attached.  ZoneAlarm can be a little naggy but it is only trying to protect you.  You can tell it not to keep asking the same questions over and over by simple checking a box and telling it not to ask the same question again.  ZoneAlarm is a must for computer protection and again the basic version, which provides great protection, is free.

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