Nick J. West

Protecting your computer, and in-turn protecting the data you place on your computer is not something to take lightly, nor is it something that will be fully answered by one of the various free anti-virus programs.

Why? New viruses are introduced literally around the clock, free software or free anti-virus services simply do not have the resources or man power to properly keep up with all the new variants.

A quality paid anti-virus service can be had for under $100 a year for up to 5 personal or business computers. My wholehearted recommendation is Kaspersky and I’ll tell you why below.

I had a retail shop with a POS software installed on a Dell computer terminal to act as the central checkout. One day, a local merchants son walked in asked if he could look something up on the web, we said “yes”.

He then goes “hmm, it does the same thing on your computer”. What on earth was he talking about? I soon discovered that he went to a website that basically took control of the computer rendering it useless within minutes installing untold amounts of trojans and spyware.

Needless to say I spent the next two weeks, off-and-on trying to install various McAffe, AVG and other anti-virus software’s only to have the computer freeze up and have to be rebooted.

Thinking it useless, I put the computer in storage for about a year, started over with inventory and data entry on a new system until I could figure out how to restore from data on the old system.

Well, hoping to give it one more try I installed Kaspersky on it, let it do its magic and about 12 hours later I had a fully functioning computer, back to its prior speed, and get this it found 1280 viruses and trojans.

Many of the other programs located viruses and trojans, but they lacked the power to completely remove them like Kaspersky.

In my opinion Kaspersky saved my computer, my data and my sanity because now its the only anti virus software I use for my computers.

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