Contributed by: masodo on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 06:05 am UTC
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I am often asked to recommend software for virus and malware protection. I sent the following information to a colleague in an email and decided to post it here for future reference. I hope you find this information useful:
To get free anti-virus go to the following page:
http://free.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download[*1]
Click the “Download Basic Protection” button:
a download.cnet.com page will open...
click on the green download button:
To complete your download, click on the link below:
Of particular intrest here is the proper procedure for the installation and configuration of the following programs:
For best results download and use the recommended Anti-Malware_Toolkit[*3]
to download the above listed programs.
Best of luck && Watch what you click!
Using the above resources I have been able to protect and clean several computers; from XP to Windows 7 - I have had success with these products. I have never seen the need to investigate the purchase of anti-virus or anti-malware products for personal computers. On rare occasions a system may be so infected that an operating system may need to be reinstalled or repaired; I have found that system stability is greatly restored using the above techniques, allowing for file recovery and backup efforts prior to the dreaded reformat.
yadda-yadda your results may vary yadda-yadda
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