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Anitivirus Software

The history of computer viruses dates back to 1986. Computer viruses used to spread by disk. But as the Internet became popular, viruses started spreading faster by e-mail. It all started in 1999 when Melissa virus infected over 100,000 computers. The Love Letter virus caused damages of more than $8 billion in 2000. In 2003 the Slammer Worm almost brought the entire Internet down. These and other famous computer viruses and fast spreading worms have harmed the Web with malicious computing. To prevent damages, virus protection and removal programs have become the norm by antivirus software. Antivirus is protective software designed to defend your computer against malicious software. Malicious software or malware includes viruses, Trojans, key loggers, hijackers, dialers, and other code that vandalizes or steals your computer contents. In order to be an effective defence, your antivirus software needs to run in the background at all times, and should be kept updated so it recognizes new versions of malicious software.
Antivirus software is very necessary for our computer to secure and protect our very important and costly personal data from virus or other malwares. Due the continuous improvement   in the field of the computer and internet technologies   on one side these developments helped in making this world as global village, where one personal can contact to the another person sitting in any part of the world   and also in the several other fields of the life   from Business to the Education . But in spite of all these developments it also makes us prone to the several sort of threats For example Virus Trojan Spam email and worms.

If you want to protect your computer then you should install antivirus software program, there are many antivirus software’s available in market these days. Viruses are small part of the malicious code that protects you. Antivirus has expanded to include worms, Trojans, viruses, jokes and hoaxes and even spyware and adware. If...

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