Load an Antivirus for Your Home Network

Do you have a network? Or is your PC part of a network? May be you are in your office, home or anywhere else, you’ll find a network or you are a part in your network.

Once you connect your PCs on a network it becomes important to keep them all safe with both of a firewall and antivirus.
If a virus makes it on to one of your PCs, it can spread across your file shares then damaging and corrupting data and programs all over your network. Many latest virus and worms can exploit many kinds of home networking setups.

Virus were mostly spread by email. The last round of worms actually attached themselves to web pages on the Internet, exploited a hold in your web browser and infected computers that were simply browsing the web. It is a best action to load antivirus software on every computer that uses the internet at least.

There is one question, will antivirus software slow down a computer? Of course it will slow it down. There is no antivirus program out will run completely transparently. But would you rather loose all the data on your entire computer network or have your system work a little slower? I worried if I saw people around me losing much data because of not installing antivirus or firewall on their network. If you are a network administrator, that is your responsible.

Many Antivirus are out there now. Free or Licensed. After loading antivirus software, you must allow program to run update itself frequently. Virus will spread fast and an out of date virus database is as ineffectual as not having antivirus software loaded.

There are antivirus softwares I can mention here:

AVG antivirus (free)
Avast (free)
AntiVir Personal Edition (free)
Kaspersky AVP (not free)
McAfee (not free)
Norton AV (not free)
RAV (not free)
etc

You have to ask yourself what antivirus can you trust all of you data with.

KEEP YOUR NETWORKS ALL SAFE.