About four months ago my computer started acting all wiggy and when I went to Google to search for some answers every time I typed the word "virus" I would be taken to a blank page. It took me about half a day to realize I was infected with a Trojan. At the time I was using AVG anti-virus, and according to the program it was up to date.
Well, I had to reformat my computer to get rid of the virus, and after the reformat I started researching other anti-virus options. Eventually, after reading a lot of reviews, I chose
aVast Home.
What's great about aVast is that it's more thorough than AVG and it updates itself and shows a small pop-up window down by the clock in the taskbar to let you know. There is a a free version, which you can register the free version for a year and then after that year is up you can register it again.
I've been using aVast Home for the last four months and I am very satisfied with it. It doesn't slow my computer down and it catches those viruses so I don't have to reformat again to get rid of them. Another neat thing I discovered about aVast is that if you click to go visit a site and the site contains any malicious conscripts aVast will show a pop-window alerting you to it. You then have the option to "Abort" or "Continue".
Pretty cool, eh?
I have another program I use to scan for malicious malware called Malwarebytes. This program does an awesome job detecting malware on your computer even when the other programs miss them. You can get the free version
here.
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