Friday, July 19, 2013

Anti viral software

It is important to protect your personal information online as there are many bad people online that steals your information (and in some cases your money). Students in order to protect yourself from nasty threats online such as phishing viruses etc you need anti viral software. Most of these programs can protect up to three or five devices.
Image of the different sorts of viruses from sodahead.com

1) Norton- this one is relatively simple to use. They have a mobile app as well as computer app and you can activate both in your account. It is about $40-$50 a year. www.norton.com/AU
2) McAfee - Commonwealth bank loves to use this, but you don't have to.
3) Trend- Trend Micro is US company and Katherine has been with them for two years now. It is $60 per year to subscribe and Katherine has had no problems with this.  shop.trendmicro.com.au
4) Kaspersky- www.kaspersky.com.au
5) Symmatec- www.symmatec.com.au

Installing it
It is easy to do, but it requires time and patience. The downloading takes about 5 minutes but installing it can take about half an our to an hour depending on your computer system. You will get a 25 digit (made of numbers and letters) serial code which you will have to enter into the computer to activate it. You just need to follow all the prompts for this.

Each one has different system requirements so you need to read these carefully before buying it. Buy the wrong one and it could end up not working and it can cost you time and money.

With each program you can download a free 30 day trial version to make sure that it works on your system before committing.
This is what you'll see when you install software. Image from oit.ncsu.edu

Got an Android device/iPhone?
It is a great idea to install an anti viral app on them as they do work the same way as the computer program

Using it.
Read the instructions before using it. Before using it you need to register so that you can get the full report.

It is recommended that you do Full scans of your system once a week to make sure that there are no threats and to keep definitions up to date.

Image from antivirus-software.findthebest.com
Its a great idea to have anti viral software on your devices as you don't want to lose money or your personal information.

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