PC Problem Solvers come to your home or office. A experienced computer tech will help solve your slow computer problems. The Internet is a great resource for information and tools you can download to make life convenient, however, the biggest mistake anyone can make is to assume such surfing and downloading always comes from reliable sources. Cases abound across the web with downloads and websites cloaking harmful data into the information accessed. The result usually ends with some type of computer repair. It is imperative to fortify your system and in doing so, you will want to employ anti-virus software to protect your machine, your identity, and the information you transmit.
Let us begin with why the anti-virus software. Most people familiar with computers and the internet have a basic understanding of this kind of protection. Viruses rear their ugly heads in all sorts of configuration ranging from Trojan horses, to worms and e-mail viruses, all perpetrating disaster when downloaded to your system. Anti-virus software works by ridding files of the virus or deleting the file. There are anti-virus programs that will shred the files, a process that is more complete than simply deleting the files. As a rule, if the virus has yet to take hold, it should be deleted or shredded. If you remove the virus in time, you will negate the need for another computer repair.
All antivirus software works with user control, meaning the user initiates the start of the software program and directs its scanning efforts upon opening a file. However, there are programs that provide on-access scanning, which scans files prior to opening. These types of programs prevent a virus from accidental release by the user resulting in sending your computer out for repair. Another feature incorporated into many antivirus programs refers to ‘quarantine,’ a process by which viruses are moved to a depository where they cannot be opened.