Anti Virus Against Threats

Most people do not understand the importance of anti-virus. When ask about whether or not you should be install, you might answer - No as you feel that it is unnecessary as you think nothing can happen to your PC or handphone. This is always the wrong conception as you can never tell when you will be affected. When it happens, it will be too late especially if you have important documents or work stuff in storage. Once your computer or handphone is infected, it is unlikely you will be able to recover your data. One example is like when you are infected by Ransomware, it will encryt your data and ask to pay for recovery. But even if you make the payment, there is no guarantee of retrieve your data as it might already be corrupted.

What do you understand about Spyware? It is just a computer software and when being installed in your computer or handphone, it will intercept or control your interaction without your knowledge. The danger of being infected by spyware is that you will not know whenever you access online banking with your username and password, it will be made known to that person who implanted the spyware. Unknowingly to you, that person will have accessed to your banking details and can make online transaction using your information. This is different from computer virus where it will not destroy your data or spreading across the network. It will only be contained in your system or handphone and steal important info that you maybe using your device to transmit data or logging into banking or secure system as it will be known to that person who had installed the spyware.

Window users are often being attacked by spyware as well as other threats may move to other O/S platforms like Apple, Unix or Linux that are less likely to be targetted by malware or virus. Realistically speaking, those platforms are not entirely full-proof as it may has security holes being exploited. As spyware is hidden together with some programs and without your knowledge, you might have downloaded the program from Internet or purchase the software in CD. It will be your nightmare once the spyware installed in your PC or handphone since it will invade your privacy. It will provide the intruder all information you had in PC or handphone like email addresses, passwords, banking details and even credit card numbers when you use it online. This danger of spyware does not stop at collecting your private information as it allows intruder to control your device. The person will be able to install other software, control browser to display sites for advertising revenue.

With all dangers that users can face using Windows O/S, Microsoft has a team of programmers to constantly monitoring bugs, security holes and fix patches where it will allow automatic updates for user's PC system. Users will have the options of when they want to install as they can set the time of updating the latest fixes and patches. A word of advice, please do update as soon as possible or you may have a security breach without knowing. Patches are available for a variety of Microsoft software that includes Windows O/S, Microsoft Office package as well as Internet Explorer. At times, the updates may affect your other software but you can easily remove the non-essential patches that affect your software under the Updating System in the Control Panel.

The main purpose of anti-virus software program installation is to pre-detect and removal of any intrusion of virus, trojans, spyware, malware and other malicious attacks in your computer or handphone. Some of the anti-virus software can pre-detect some intrusion before it can infect your system whereas others more malicious software including spyware, malware, trojans, etc. The protection program will help you to remove these attacks by rebooting the system or just cleaning / deleting the virus, spyware, trojans, etc. Depending on individual anti-virus software where it comes with limitation of protection as well as upgrade. Example is some software charge for upgrade while others do not and limit its detection of intrusion. So you may require to have different protection software to safeguard your system. As you maybe know about Adware that cause alot of problem for users especially when using their browsers. This adware appears to be the same like viruses as it promotes advertisement through browsers and emails. This software mainly focus on making money via advertisement. Some better anti-virus software provide detection of adware and stop it from appearing in emails or browsers.

Be safe with your data on PC, laptop or handphone. Using this software allows you to have this features:

- Allow your files or data to be encrypted in case of robbery or missing.

- With its multilayered protection technology, you will be secured against ransomware or other forms of malware.

- Comes with both anti-virus and anti-spyware protection against any digital attacks like viruses, worms, spyware, trojans and others.

- It is designed to stop attacks against programs that evade anti-virus detection like ransomware.

- It has advanced memory scanner to detect multi-layers of encryption of malware that conceal its activity.

- It has the function of scanning while your computer in idling without compromising your system performance.

- It also has the UEFI scanner that protects in a deeper level before Windows starts against threats.

- It pre-scan all download files to reduce scanning time without compromising system performance.

- It also comes with cloud-powered scanning with a safe whitelisting to stop unknown malware.

- Protects against any malicious scripts like Javascripts that attack against your browsers.