Anti-virus Software
- Used to protect your computer against viruses
- A virus is a program and distrubuted across the internet, by email or sharing storage devices
- Sometimes designed to do nothing more than annoy you but often do a lot of damage such as:
- Wiping your hard drive clean
- Allowing your computer to be accessed by a hacker remotely
- Thousands of new viruses are written every week, it is important to ensure that virus patterns are kept up-to-date (usually done automatically)
Spyware protection
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