The Best Solution With Regards To Keeping Your Computer Free From Viruses
By: Jay Stamford
Submitted: 2011-02-18 07:45:27 | Word Count: 498
Have you ever received strange error messages and indiscriminate freezes as well as restarts? Perhaps your PC is just operating a lot slower than normal. Maybe the snag is so bad that you are accessing this page with a different computer entirely. Being contaminated with a PC virus is a reality many internet users around the planet never want to face, nevertheless, with some good antispyware software application, these fears can be a object of the past.
While PC viruses had been still in their infant stages only a few years ago, unfortunately, the scenario is a good deal more grim today. pC viruses are becoming more complex and more testing to detect. Chances are if you experienced a few of the symptoms I described above that you may have some kind of comparatively basic PC virus. Most of the new viruses are so advanced that you will never even know they are there unless you have a good anti-malware suite of utilities.
While getting a PC malware is a very stressful experience for many people, protecting a PC before it is infected is much easier. There are a number of decent free products out on the market, however, the issue with these products is that they either don't protect in real time as well as paid products, or they are worse at catching infections when they occur.
Around a year and a half ago my laptop was contaminated by a computer virus. At first I attributed the odd behavior (including not waking up after sleep and taking forever to start up) to either a hardware problem or a recent software update. After all, I had a free antivirus product on the computer so I should have been fine, right?
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Well, I thought everything was fine until my credit card company called and asked if I had authorized a large purchase for adult movies. At this point my heart started to race as I tried to figure out where someone had gotten my credit card number. Little did I know that a malware had hidden itself in my computer, waiting for me to enter personal information such as banking information.
It was in fact one of my old colleagues who originally suggested that I try another anti malware program after listening to my story. I purchased a new product on his recommendation and it found a worm that the other program had missed. This worm had logged important financial account info without my ever knowing it. Luckily I was able to remove the worm, dispute the fraudulent charges and get back to a fairly normal life quickly. Of course, if I only had the best antispyware product to start with I would have never had the problem.
