The IT Guys Blog

A recent study conducted by McAfee found that 90% of respondents said they were using an antivirus that updated either daily or weekly. In actuality, 49% didn’t even have an antivirus at all or if they did it was not updating. The actual results can be read here.

Although there are a lot of bells and whistles the average user can live with out these days, a good antivirus isn’t one of them. I’m not going to pick favorites here, but make sure whatever you are using it isn’t some no name knock off brand. When I was a consultant we had a home division and we would offer a terrible knock off antivirus to customers who didn’t want to pay for name brand stuff. It worked pretty well at actually detecting viruses, but an update came out for it one year and it started blue screening computers. I never worked in the home division, but I can remember them taking in about fifty or so computers over the course of only a few days, all due to this antivirus update.

Keep in mind that once your computer is actually infected by a virus or trojan  removing it becomes extremely difficult. It’s a very bad plan to wait until you have problems to buy an antivirus, because you might also wind up paying to have your hard drive re-formatted and re-loaded to get rid of it.

Source Sunnet Beskerming