Basic computer protection

Hello & Welcome to my first post of usefullness.

I assume that as you nice people reading this are on a computer probably 80% windows users you will realise or hopefully realise that you need some form of protection. 'Protection?' i hear you ask. Yes protection, let me give you a analogy; the internet is like a very alluring women (or man) that promises lots and can indeed deliver, but unfountunatly this women (or man) is chock full of STI's. Now you wouldn't just jump into bed with a stranger that you just met without say a condom, would you? No of course not, this is the same as the internet. You can still have lots of fun with this women or man if u used a comdom for example so what you need is an internet condom. Right so where do i get one of these? aha! good question you can go down the road of buying expensive powerful Antivirus from your local computer shop or download a free version of the internet. So which is it going to be? A paid version comes with lots of extra features which i will probably talk about in another post but to sumerise they often come with :Powerful antivirus, backup support, firewall, network monitoring and other features yet the free ones normally just come with a virus scanner. So it depends on your needs; for average surfing i'd pick the free one. However if your going to take a tour of the internets less trustworthy areas i'd go for a paid version.

Here's some recomnedations:
http://free.avg.com/
http://www.avast.com/
http://www.symantec.com/norton/index.jsp
http://home.mcafee.com/Default.aspx



Hope this helps some people
-GingerFox

Hello & Welcome

Right, i have created this blog to help people out, inform them of some stuff going on in the tech world and perhaps make someone, somewhere have a quiet laugh to themselves.

-GingerFox