Choosing An Antivirus Product

It is very important to have an Anti-Virus software installed in your computer. Script kiddies are creating virus that bring potential harm or damage to your computer. Now, I cant give you an exact amount of how many virus being are created in a day, but I am sure that virus are created every second not day.

Virus usually come from the internet, Instant Messenger (MSN,Yahoo,Skype,AIM...) or USB thumb drive, in one of my previous post, I have introduced McAfee Site Advisor and some screen shot of how can virus infect computers by just viewing a web page. If an image is attached with a virus or any malware, once the image is loaded in your browser, it means, your machines has been infected. You do not need to click on the image or save it into your computer.

Sometimes, viruses come from Instant Messenger, for example MSN Messenger, in this software, a feature call Sharing Folder, where you can share folders with your contact.
If User A have shared a folder with Contact B , and Contact B's Computer is infected with virus, trojan or spyware that has the ability to spread, User A will be infected.

Another situation usually that usually happen is autorun in USB Thumbdrive. Some virus will spread and duplicate itself into any mass storage devices that is plugged into the computer. The thumbdrive is plugged into another computer and infect that computer.

Virus also come from email attachment, today, almost all the anti-virus has
the intelligence to detect and scan email attachment and warm the user if there is a malware or any potential threats that will harm the computer.

Solutions? Anti-Virus

If you ask me what Anti-Virus is the best, I will tell you the is no such thing as best Anti-Virus in this world. Triangle again ><, if the anti-virus is too sensitive, you will end up saying that anti-virus s*cks, if it is too weak, you will say lame or useless . If you ask me what Anti-Virus I trust the most, i would say Symantec Norton and Kaspersky, I Trust Norton Anti-Virus because Norton has a large list of Virus Definition and the solutions; how to remove the virus manually, no other anti-virus company has a list larger than Norton. For Kaspersky, everyone knows it is famous for strong detection, the anti-virus's ability to detect a virus or a malware is very high. Both of product are recommended if you are willing to spend money for your anti-virus. Another product to consider is BitDefender, My experience of using BitDefender is it is quite sensitive in when scanning and it updates the virus definition every hour, without disturbing the user or slowing down the performance. You may consider McAfee, it is a quite famous anti-virus solution.


Free Anti-Virus List?
If you are not willing to spend money to buy an anti-virus product, there are some free anti virus available in the Internet. The one I trust the most for free anti-virus is BitDefender Free Anti-Virus.
A few more to consider:-

1)AVG Anti-Virus 8.0
2)Avira AntiVir Personal
3)avast! 4 Home Edition

No screen shot :(, all are based on experience and some important testing. If you want to compare some famous Anti-Virus Product, this website has a very detail comparison and review.