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Did you recently install Microsoft Security Essentials to protect your computer, and right after installing it, your computer slowed to a crawl? Well, the good news is, you’re not going crazy. It is completely possible for this to happen. Why? Because for some reason, Microsoft made it so that if you are running MSE on [...]

If you’re having issue with Avira Antivirus updating on your system, you have a couple of options:

If you want to know whether or not your anti-virus program is working, then here is a very simple way to create a fake virus so that you can test it (this is completely safe to do):

Here are some simple things that you can do to avoid getting a virus on your computer:

No. It does not. This is a myth. What happens is the computer either gets a virus(es) and/or accumulates spyware/malware. Any system can be cleaned of all threats so that it runs just as fast as it did when you bought it. See my post on How to speed up your computer.

Is your computer running slower than it used to? Well, here are some things you can do to help speed it up: 1. Scan your computer for viruses First and foremost, you want to scan your computer for viruses. Viruses can definitely slow down your computer, and are a major cause of most computer slowdowns. [...]

Having an anti-virus program (AV program) running on your computer is imperative to its healthy operation. Not only should you have an AV program installed and running on your computer, but your virus definitions should be up-to-date as well. What are virus definitions, you ask? Well, they are simply data files that define what a [...]