Why Do I Still Get Viruses?

Article Index Why Do I Still Get Viruses? What can a Virus do to me? Virus Life Cycle Conclusion How do I Protect my Computer? Page 1 of 5 Many people have Anti-Virus software installed. Many of the major Anti-Virus software company's now promote what they call "Security Suites" or packages. These Security Suites contain everything from Anti-Virus, Firewall Protection, SPAM and Pop-Up blockers, and Ad-ware protection. Quite often, once the software is installed people find out that things they use to be able to do on the Internet are no longer possible. So what happens is portions or all of the software they purchased to protect their computer get disabled. The result, an ineffective software program that you paid good money for! Worst than that, most people have no idea exactly how the Anti-Virus portion of the package should be configured. Leaving it up to the default configuration to defend their computers. Most of the manuals that come with these software packages seem to be written for those who understand the intricate workings of computers along with every computer acronym ever invented! Most everyone who owns a computer knows about viruses.  Years ago, viruses were more of an annoyance than anything.  But as time passed those who develop viruses became more astute at their trade and started developing viruses with malicious intent. It's amazing that we regularly find computers without any anti-virus protection at all.  Typically, those who do not, find out rather quickly how important virus protection is.  In addition to the many computers we find without virus protection, we find many computers do not have the anti-virus software configured and running properly to protect them from even the most basic type of infection. Prev - Next >>