You want to protect your PC, of course. But how? We'll walk you through 10 antivirus options.
Engineers worldwide labor daily to create powerful, full-featured, award-winning antivirus applications, and you've probably never even heard of most of their products. In fact, you could be running one of more than two dozen applications that stop viruses from attacking your computer.
Why are there so many antivirus apps? It used to be that if you didn't share floppy disks, you had almost no chance of contracting a computer virus. With the advent of the Internet, however, viruses and worms can arrive on your PC through e-mail and infected Web pages. You should scan for viruses daily to remove them from your machine and keep from infecting others.
To help familiarize you with the extremely wide world of virus blockers, we searched high and low for big-name and underdog apps alike. For its ease of use and unparalleled track record at stopping viruses that are in the wild, we like Norton AntiVirus 2002. Of the antivirus products you may not have heard of before, we like Norman Virus Control, even though the interface may toss up too many options for the average end user. But this virus hunter works well under the hood, and that's what counts.
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