Anti-virus softwares can provide a good layer of protection from malwares, trojans/worms, rootkits and viruses. Most scanner based anti-virus cannot keep up with the multitude of these “pests” because they come in great numbers daily. Daily updates is crucial for the detection of newly created viruses. Several commecial anti-virus scanners are brought down to their knees by these viruses rendering them ineffective, and even if they are updated, the program simply cannot identify the infecting agent since it has already been disarmed. So we resort to using two anti-virus programs at the same time but conflicts may arise, so choosing the best anti-virus program to use is a must.

(Screenshot of Avira Updating with the Advert on the background)

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The things that we do over the internet is not a secret anymore. Our current location can be traced and our internet habits can be monitored. The right to privacy is NOT respected online. The email that we send contain headers that can be analyzed, revealing the source and the recipient. The sites that we visit records our activities and this data can be used to trace us or can be used against us. The information transmitted over the net can be disclosed anytime by the power of a court order if so required.

Internet data packets have two parts: a data payload and a header used for routing. The data payload is whatever is being sent, an email message, a web page, or an audio or video file. Even if the data is encrypted, traffic analysis still reveals a lot of information because it focuses on the header, which discloses source, destination, size, timing, and many other information that you may not want others know about.

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Bought a disk defragmenter lately? Well try IObit Smart Defragmenter and see for yourself. It does so quickly leaving the others lagging behind. It is not a bloated software and it does its job as professionally as the best commercial defragmenter out there. With this new release, the performance got better and I am pretty sure there will be more improvements to be made with the future releases. On top of it all, it is totally FREE for life!

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