Nowadays, web-based services, including social networks such as Facebook, Friendster, and MySpace, are becoming prime targets for hackers to seek our personal information data.In September 2008, the names and contact information for tens of thousands of customers of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and SunTrust Banks (STI) were stolen from Salesforce.com (CRM), which provides online customer management software for those two companies. The incident occurred after a hacker tricked a Salesforce employee into disclosing a password... (continue link to: www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc2007119_234494.htm)
People nowadays are more relies on computer to save their personal information and important business data. The risk is, once the PC is connected to the internet, hackers might be able to hack in and steal any data from any computer by several ways. Some common examples such as downloading free videos, musics, games from online sharing site may increase the chances for hacker to hack in your computer. Nowadays, hackers are exploring these kind of sharing site to hack into computer, because online sharing site is one type of hot website that people visit frequently.
To prevent any leaking of personal or important data, purchase or install of non-FOC antivirus and firewall software is the most effective solution. Normally, free anti-viruses is just for prevent vulgar viruses and threats, but unable to scan those advanced viruses and spywares. The common non-FOC anti-viruses such as Kaspersky, Bitdefender, AVG antivirus 8, and McAfee VirusScan. AVG anti-virus also provide free anti-virus, AVG Free series, which is common use by people who prefer FOC anti-virus, but if you try to compare the quality of AVG Free and AVG Antivirus(upgraded from AVG Free, or direct purchase) you will know the differences ^^"This is the ranking of anti-virus for year 2009
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http://webabout.org/2009/02/03/2009-antivirus-software-product-ranking-review.html
Don't ever underestimate the threats of viruses and hackers, they could bring unexpected lost to you anytime. Do running the daily computer scanning process using the anti-virus system and always activate your firewall.
E-Generation, be smart and be discreet to protect our PC from now!!
2 comments:
Yes, i am totally agree with antivirus program is very important for us to prevent the threat of viruses.
Nowadays, many people is using online banking to proceed their bank transactions. It is more important to have a strong anti-virus program to prevent the leaking of personal information. But the question is which anti-viruses program we should practice that can prevent these things happen?
Thanks for your comment, choi fong. As what I post, any 1 of the anti virus in the top 10 ranking can be trusted and use to prevent viruses. other than that, as long as u r using a paid antivirus software, it will be always better than the free download antivirus software.
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