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How essential is it for me to have anti-virus running on my laptop?
05-12-2013, 01:15 PM
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You will be a "sitting duck" on the Internet without a virus scan. You don't even have to go to bad sites anymore to get a virus - some are dropped into legitimate web sites. For instance, our local papers web site was hacked last week with a Trojan.
You are using one of the best free virus scans around with Avast. Any virus scan will slow the response of your computer slightly simply by the fact of scanning scrips when you navigate to a web page. I do not recommend McAffe at all - it is a resource hog.
I do recommend running Avast with Firefox browser and two free Spyware programs: Spybot Search and Destroy and Spyware Blaster.
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[] - Dr. Love - 05-12-2013, 12:31 PM
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