The Business Web – How We Use the Web for Business

There are a lot of emails and websites out there that is just waiting for people to click on them so they can get their virus out to infect either business or personal computer.  In these days, a retail version of a virus protector are pretty expensive and the thing with them is that they don’t actually protect you from new viruses, they just prevent what has already been out.  So what I don’t get is that why pay such a high price for such virus protector/scanner when you can get one for free.  If you actually look around on google for free virus protector, you’ll eventually come across a program call AVG. 

AVG has almost everything you need from a regular virus protector for your everyday need.  It has an email scanner that you can set up, it automatically updates on a regular basis, and of course, you can set a regular schedule to scan your computer for viruses.  I too went into the phase when I thought, that maybe Norton and McAfee would do a better job.  I tried Norton awhile back and it ate all my system resources like crazy.  Everytime I tried to run some applications, everything would slow down by like 3 folds.  Not everybody has a great computer and while you are working especially, they don’t see a reason why you need to have something top of the line since you are only running MS Office all day doing word processing.  But since I’ve had AVG, I’ve set the timer to scan in the morning around midnight so it can run however long it does and by the time I get to work, everything is all done.  AVG doesn’t take a lot of resources and really, do I need the other extra features that the expensive software gives you vs something that you can get for free.  Yeah, I thought not.

 Free AVG Anti-virus Software

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