Sunday, May 2, 2010

Why is antivirus protection important for your computer

What is a Antivirus Software ?
Antivirus is a program which makes your system clean and secure from harmful virus,worms and attacks.Antivirus software is vital to maintain proper computer functioning.When computers operate without antivirus programs, they have an increased risk of acquiring malicious software that could completely damage the system, compromise security or delete important information.
Okay,now in simple words ... Antivirus programs fully protect the computer by scanning the entire operating system, emails and all downloaded files.


How Antivirus Detection works ?
Antivirus Scan all files of your system to find the malicious softwares,worms and Trojans.Even,Browsing the Internet increases the risk of picking up viruses, spyware, malware and malicious Trojans on your computer. Antivirus programs detect suspicious websites and files that contain malicious programs before they enter the computer.Antivirus programs block malicious tracking software from being downloaded to your computer. Tracking software is used to steal credit card, banking and personal information; the information is then sold to organizations that run identity theft rings.Antivirus programs automatically remove spyware, files, Trojans and all other forms of malicious software from the computer. Automatic virus removal is a simple process, and it is also very extensive.

Why a Antivirus Important to Install in your pc ?
There are lots of hackers in world,who every minite makes and spread millons of new viruses.The main purpose of those hackers is to hack and collect your secret information.Like your facebook,email passwords,your ATM password,your bank account info and lots more type of private info.Other attacks are just for fun to destroy systems.But this really Going to serious sometimes.You have also seen sometimes In your window that your antivirus stop working,your files automatically deleted,your net connection becomes very slow,task manager disable,even sometimes your window crashes.All these are effects due to such virus.


How and why hackers code this Virus ?
Hehehehe ... Everyone wanna know that how hackers code such virus.These viruses can be code in different programming languages.The very basic language used is Vb.net or batch ,then java,delphi,python on other more advance proramming languages can be used. These viruses mostly work only for Windows system.Bcoz Linux is the most cool operating system i have ever ever seen.Linux do not support all such extentions n formats of virus.and also dont support autorun .So these virus are no affected fro LINUX system.There are lots of virus maker programs available ,with which you can create your own customized virus without knowing the programming laguages.

Keep in touch to learn the virus coding...Soon i will post an article that  "How hackers code virus and there functions ? "
Why updation of Antivirus needed and important ?
As I Mention above that Every minite there are lots of new virus types comes online to attack on our computers.So,Antivirus programs update their virus registry on a daily basis. These updates are important because new viruses are released every day, and they can go undetected if the virus scanner is not up to date.irus signature / database/data mask/ is an algorithm or a set of algorithms which calculate a hash to distinctively identify the strains of a virus.A generic anti-virus checks the database or virus signature and a heuristic anti-virus uses heuristic algorithm and checks malicious character in virus behaviour by different statistical and other advanced means.
So from today keep in mind that only installing an antivirus is not sufficient for your security.You have to update it regularly.

Where mostly a virus  may resides ?


1) RAM
2) Boot Records
3) Master Boot records
4) Different type of files
5) In temperory folder
6) Can be hidden/bind with other files ..like images,games,videos,keygen or patch softwares.
7) Rar files.

What Should be the capabilities of a Good Antivirus Program ?

1) Script checking
2) Compressed Files/folder checking
3) Quarantine capability
4) Email and web mail checking
5) P2P/File Sharing Protection
6) Registry checking
7) Macro protection
8) Firewall Protection
9) Real time Protection

I think now everything clear to you,Now lets see which Antivirus programs are best for your system .....
In my opinion the best anti virus is  the program which is updated , i mean the Antivirus should be updated.
But here the problem is, we have to pay the money and update it monthly.. so no need of worrying kinghackz provides all the Antiviruses free for download.. Click here for all the Antiviruses for free.

But most of the people uses kaspersky Antivirus because it is,  good in performance so if you would like to download the kaspersky antivirus .. you can download it from here.

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