Ok, I'm officially changing tech tuesday to tech thursday for reasons that I'm not going to go into here

AntiVirus

Why is having antivirus software important?
    If didn't have an antivirus program AND you didn't run updates, you would have a plethora of viruses in short order. If you keep your computer up to date and you pay attention to what you are doing, you will get very few viruses and your antivirus program will be your last defence.

What do viruses do?
    In the good old days, viruses were primarily about gaining fame in the hacking community. They just wanted to replicate fast enough to get out there and do enough damage for people to notice. Now viruses are more about turning your computer into a zombie. Unfortunately, not the fun loving, flesh eating zombies we all know and love. These kind want to take over your computer and use it to do other nefarious task such as sending out spam and attacking other computers.

What do we do then?
    I've used just about all the major antivirus programs at some point. I discovered that the more expensive the program, the worse it is.  McAfee and Norton just try to do too many things and eat up all your computer's resources.  The best one I've found is also free.  It's not pretty, and it could be a more user friendly, but it works well.  The only adjustment I had to make after I installed it was to have it scan my computer in the middle of the night.

Download AVG antivirus here!

I've heard of some other free ones, but I haven't tried them yet. If you have let me know!