How Anti Virus Software Will Keep Your Computer Happy

For most people, they do not care how the inner workings of their computer works, as long as it gets the job done. They do not want to know about the memory, or how many bits and bytes is in something. They just want to be able to email their mother pictures of her grandchildren. So when it comes to securing the computer from outside threats, they tend to shy away from overly complicated solutions. They want a quick and easy fix or they will ignore the problem until it starts to affect the computer from doing its normal everyday operations. But making sure your computer is secure from black hat hackers does not have to be complicated. With a few software installations, you can have your computer run safe and secure in no time.

The first thing that you should know, is what you are securing your computer from. This is pretty easy. In laymen terms, you are securing your computer from viruses and other malware that will seek to corrupt it. When we say corrupt it, what that means is that it will put some kind of program onto your system that will make your computer do things that you do not want it to do. Things such as read the data that you put into it and then send it to someone else. Or it might have data that the program comes with and turn your computer into a delivery system. The deliveries will be things such as spam or maybe even other viruses. They could also use your computer to attack other computers on the internet in what is called a DDOS attack. So for these reasons, you want to make sure that your computer is protected in the latest anti virus security.

You can download anti virus from several different venues. You can use a name brand such as Norton or Macaffe. Or you can use a free version such as AVG. No matter which one you pick, make sure that you get it from a reputable web site. There are a lot of web sites that will try to get you to download fake anti virus software. Make sure the site that you get it from is legitimate. Download.com is a good resource but there are others. So once you download the software, install it on your computer. After you finish the install, run a scan on your computer. You want to make sure that any malware that was on there before you installed the software is now gone. Now that is taken care of, just let the software run every time you turn on the computer. This will mean that you are pretty well protected.

Once you have the anti virus running on your computer, make sure that it is always updated. If you do not run an update on a regular basis then your protection will be incomplete. The software will not be ale to protect you from new infections. If you do keep it updated, then you will have years of happy computing.

Nathaly Dedeyan is co-owner and author at PC Security, a free online computer security resource. Visitors ill benefit from unique quality researched guides and articles and become better informed to avoid any security compromise on their computer.