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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>even CNET and a few other reputable websites had
milicious codes injected into their websites to infect visitors despite their
robust precautions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as for opening emails, even people you know may
send you infected mails unknowingly. as one of my previous posting showed, i had
received emails from people i know but the emails were actually sent by
milicious websites that commandered their email account.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://jumblebox.webs.com/">http://jumblebox.webs.com/</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=kyychoo@streamyx.com href="mailto:kyychoo@streamyx.com">Choo Kim
Yoon</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=share@ncbm.org.my
href="mailto:share@ncbm.org.my">share@ncbm.org.my</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Share] Do you really need
it?</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>hi friends, talk
back. what's your opinion, in your voice? do you agree with this writer? can
we really rest assured that our PC will be absolutely safe without anti virus
programs? by the way, I am using Avast anti virus and Iobit Security 360 anti
malware programs. I found they were good enough, not causing my computer slow
down. in fact, some of the software recommended by this writer are not working
as good as he sounds.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=kyychoo@streamyx.com href="mailto:kyychoo@streamyx.com">Choo Kim
Yoon</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mabelderlyclub@googlegroups.com
href="mailto:mabelderlyclub@googlegroups.com">mabelderlyclub@googlegroups.com</A>
; <A title=share@ncbm.org.my
href="mailto:share@ncbm.org.my">share@ncbm.org.my</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Share] Do you really need
it?</DIV>
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<H1 class=articleheading>Antivirus software: Do you really need it?
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<P class=date><!-- Author Start -->By Jay Dougherty <!-- Author End -->Jul
31, 2010, 3:06 GMT </P></DIV>
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<P>Washington - Do you wish you could do without antivirus software? There
are certainly plenty of good reasons not to like it. After all, antivirus
programs invariably slow down your <A class=kLink
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annoy you with false positives or status pop-ups, and of course most of them
cost money - often on a recurring, yearly basis. But can you just say no to
antivirus software and still stay safe? The short answer is 'yes' - if you
adopt some security-savvy computing practices. </P>
<P>--- Know thyself </P>
<P>If you only use commercial software and never install programs you've
downloaded from the internet or copied from a friend, then your main sources
of concern for contracting a computer virus will come from <A class=kLink
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and e-mail. Common sense - and following the guidelines below - will protect
you the rest of the way. </P>
<P>On the other hand, if you're addicted to free downloads, shareware, and
'warez' sites that purport to offer commercial software at no cost, then you
have no viable option. You must install antivirus software - and perhaps
even use a couple of programs - to make sure you don't fall victim to
malicious software or phishing attacks. </P>
<P>Most people, however, run just the few programs that came with their PCs
and don't venture into dangerous territory on the web. For them, the
guidelines below will provide adequate protection. </P>
<P>--- Web sites </P>
<P>Today's browsers have a lot of security controls built in, and these tend
to do a fine job of preventing phishing attacks or the automatic downloading
of potentially malicious software. Antivirus tools add little to their
already robust protections. </P>
<P>So if you want to be free of antivirus software, be sure to use to latest
versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome, and keep those
browsers up to date through your operating system's automatic update
feature. Also, do not disable or alter the default security settings of the
major browsers unless you know what you're doing. </P>
<P>If you attempt to access a <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return false;"
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that's known to be harmful, most modern web browsers will warn you before
the site is displayed on your screen. If you'd like to feel even more secure
when you're surfing, consider installing the free McAfee SiteAdvisor tool
(http://www.siteadvisor.com), which adds small site rating icons to your
search results and a new browser button and optional search box to your
browser. These controls together do a good job of alerting you to a
potentially dangerous site before you reach it. </P>
<P>--- Clean e-mail </P>
<P>Most of the generalised warnings you hear about virus-carrying e-mail
messages are misleading. You can't get a computer virus merely by receiving
an e-mail message. You would have to click on a link within the message that
downloads a harmful file onto your <A class=kLink
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or you would have to open or run a malicious file attached to a message.
</P>
<P>So don't do either one of those things if you receive an e-mail message
from someone you don't know. Combine that common sense approach with the
latest patches or updates for your e-mail program of choice, and you should
have no use for additional protection offered by a bloated security package.
</P>
<P>You can add yet another level of security by configuring your e-mail
program so that it displays incoming messages as plain text. Doing so will
turn off the display of graphics, which, when clicked, may unleash a
virus-carrying file. If you use a traditional e-mail client such as Outlook
or Outlook Express, add a good spam-blocking like Cloudmark Desktop
(http://bit.ly/7zrVeU) to your toolkit, and chances are very good that any
potentially dangerous messages will get routed automatically to your Spam
folder, where you will never see it. </P>
<P>--- Periodic scans </P>
<P>Just because you decide to run your <A class=kLink
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without antivirus software doesn't mean you shouldn't check for viruses
occasionally. You can do so, however, without installing anything if you
stop in occasionally at one of the free online virus scanners. Among them
are Eset Online Scanner (http://www.eset.com/online-scanner), Avast Online
Scanner (http://onlinescan.avast.com), and TrendMicro Online Scanner
(http://housecall.trendmicro.com). All of these allow you to initiate a
system scan without installing a permanent antivirus package. </P>
<P>--- Giving in </P>
<P>If you don't like the idea of initiating a virus scan from a web sit or
you just don't feel comfortable going without antivirus software, you can
keep system slowdowns to a minimum and annoyance at bay by opting for one of
the security applications that are known to be effective at detecting
threats, relatively easy on system resources, and reasonably priced. Titles
that meet all of those criteria include Microsoft's Security Essentials
(http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials) - which is free - PCTools'
Spyware Doctor with Antivirus =(http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor), and
Norton Antivirus 2010 (http://www.symantec.com). Each of these will provide
the background scanning and on-demand protection that you might need, and
each can be configured not to bug you unless absolutely
necessary.</P></FONT><PRE> </PRE>
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