Bridging The Gap on Anti VirusThe most recent survey on the Antivirus Review written by the
author of this article has certainly
been incomplete not because of the lack of redundant information but also ‘cause of the absence of some consistence examples about the existing free yet registeredversions of some remarkable Anti Virus packages available on the Web.This article is aimed at bridging the widening gap of the previous article by the author and the current one. And to make it more convincing I have understandably used some redundant examples of the subject Antivirus Packages.Of late, it has been a trend on the web that the
users sitting on the client machines tend to download just anything in the name of an ‘Antivirus’ or an ‘Internet
Security’ pack and just blindly install the application in their haste of not just getting their machine safeguarded against the latest virus and hacker threats – they also do it impatiently in order to see just something new on their monitor.Even an interesting GUI alone can satisfy their subtle desire of new – howsoever fruitless it may be when it comes to use as far as its safeguarding capability is concerned.A stand-alone remedy can be cited if we remain a little judicious about our quest of a new GUI – if correctly translated. I – as a web enthusiast can also come up with some readymade solution. And that is nothing but correctly understand what’s good (even if not so interesting to watch it do the good) and what’s bad (again-may not be necessarily good looking) for our PC.My endeavor will remain active to get the attention of the users of all those client machines diverted rightly towards the judicious control of their desire to fruitlessly watch their machine ‘being prevented’ by all those so called ‘Security Packs’ being freely distributed over the web.In this regard I will certainly not forget to mention that not all the freely distributed Anti Virus packages are useless. But most of the users are already acquainted with them following their exposure to the web and they are quiet ‘bored’ of them. For tip of the week, I will recommend the regular Internet users to download and install the Computer Associates pack, which once registered is valid for a year (yes! I am serious) and seamlessly integrates itself with the personal firewall and other security soft wares on your PC. I am so impressed by it that I have installed a paid version of it on my own PC and am quite surprised to see that it has stopped reporting any threat of late (there are two possible reasons- 1. It doesn’t work. 2. It works behind the scene and remains quiet unlike its contemporaries. Let the latter one be true). To conclude with, Merry Christmas to you all and wish you all a virus and malware free holidays. Snehashis Mukherjee (The author can be reached at pupblazer@gmail.com)