| ery important to protect your computer from nasty | | | | rid of the annoying pop up messages created by the |
| viruses. If you do not have some sort of antivirus | | | | virus. Be very careful though as often the software |
| protection software you probably already have some | | | | you are prompted to download is a further virus which |
| kinds of infected files and you don’t even know | | | | is designed to read all your information and steal your |
| it! We live in a nasty world and new viruses, spyware, | | | | passwords for financial gain. |
| Trojans, worms and malware are generated each and | | | | By buying antivirus software you are protecting |
| every day. The antivirus software companies regularly | | | | yourself from unnecessary attack. |
| update their virus definitions however these computer | | | | Does antivirus software slow down your computer? |
| nasties are quick and can often by pass updates. | | | | There are lots of antivirus reviews on the Internet |
| What are viruses? | | | | which say some antivirus software products are a |
| Computer viruses used to be fairly harmless. | | | | terrible drain on your computer and place a huge |
| Something a hacker might perform to mess with you | | | | burden on your computers processor. However, this is |
| by changing the background of your computer or | | | | not the case anymore, maybe a few years ago. |
| something else as equally annoying. Now most | | | | Improvements from antivirus providers and better |
| computer viruses are designed to make money for | | | | computer processing power means this is not usually |
| the cyber criminal. | | | | the case. |
| How do viruses make money? | | | | Buying antivirus software protection can be confusing |
| There are a number of ways in which computer | | | | particularly if you don’t understand anything |
| viruses can make the source money. Sometimes the | | | | about computers and technology. Do you go for free |
| infected computer is prompted to download a bogus | | | | antivirus protection or do you use a very well known |
| antivirus software product for a small fee. This will get | | | | provider who you can trust? |