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Oct

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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