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I enjoy having a pop at Apple’s fascist control over their products as much as the next man, but in order for us to prove to Steve that he does
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I enjoy having a pop at Apple’s fascist control over their products as much as the next man, but in order for us to prove to Steve that he does
Back in the day, when I previously used the Norton Anti-Virus suite for my home computer, it gave me the hump. There were a few reasons I got narked with it, the main one being that the hit on system performance was pretty high for an AV suite, and for a chap who liked to play the odd online FPS, it was a bit of a pain. Secondly, once you installed it, it was installed. Every facet of your computers being was wormed into and monitored by Norton, and it felt stifling, and ominous. And if you wanted to get rid of it, you would have been lucky to remove all of its various components and registry entries without a team of Microsoft computer scientists, and a man with a hammer in reserve.
There was a time when your PC was secure, then came along viruses and we all started using anti-virus software. But it didn’t stop there, next was malware and spyware and so we had to start using anti-spyware software. The latest threat to your PC is data snatching where hackers steal your personal details, your credit card numbers, your digital identity. To mark the release of AVG 9.0, AVG Technologies, the security software specialists, has released a series of videos to increase awareness of the perils of data snatching featuring street magician Dynamo.
AVG the company behind the very popular free anti virus software is running an awareness campaign about Data Snatching on the web. Data Snatching occurs when trusted websites are hi-jacked
It seems that Microsoft has finally understood the importance of good Anti-Virus software and that without this critical piece of software your PC will soon become as useful as a