Legislation to force Home PC Users to Install Anti-Virus Software - Pt 2
If you have a web business Trojan viruses on Home PC's can seriously affect your ability to run your web site. If you have never experienced being unable to access your web site through your browser, or by ftp or even recover email, consider your self lucky.
The fact that your subscribers may not get your email because the SPAM filters ate it pails into being totally insignificant when you yourself can not access your web site through your browser, or by ftp or even recover email for days or even weeks at a time.
Don’t think it can’t happen to you, it has happened to me several times. The first time I experienced the problem it occurred at random lasting for periods up to a week and eventually caused me to move to another web host.
More recently I was unable to access one of my web sites for 12 hours, all because of the measures a web host was forced to take to combat a Distributed Denial of Service attack a.k.a. DDOS attack.
To prevent the Internet from becoming a hostage to Trojan Viruses installed on 100’s of thousands of Home PC’s around the world then clearly we all have a responsibility to ourselves and each other to stop it happening.
The solution is simple, install some good anti-virus software on your PC that includes a firewall and keep it regularly updated. Keeping the anti-virus software updated is crucial if you are to remain protected from the 100’s of new viruses and self replicating mutations that come onto the Internet every day.
Downloading free anti-virus software is a start, but it needs to be kept up to date every day. I know of only one way to keep anti-virus up to date and that’s to pay for a subscription that provides automatic daily updates.
Not all anti-virus software is up to the task. I have tried quite a few of them over the years, including the well known ones like McAfee and Norton – Symantec, Trend Micro and many others less known.
The one that I have used now for 2 years and in my opinion has no equal is from pandasoftware.com.
But what ever anti-virus software you decide upon, make the decision to install it today and keep the Internet free from those who would want to control it.
If you come back to this site at a later date and can't load the pages then the site could well be under attack from a Trojan Virus controller who didn't like what I wrote or who wants to prove a point - so be warned.
Tony Simpson
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