Anti-Virus Overview
Online Viruses are a fact of Internet Life
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- Every computer in your house should have anti-virus software
installed, and running, and up to date.
- AV software will occasionally scan every file on your machine for viruses
- AV software should automatically examine every incoming file (via,
floppy disk, email attachment, web download, peer-to peer download)
- The heart of most AV programs is a “dictionary” of pre-defined viruses
which is compared to your files. The dictionary may have over 60,000
definitions.
- AV programs will also monitor certain sensitive system resources for any
changes.
Anti-Virus Software reviews.
PC Magazine article about best security suites.
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