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As the title suggests this is a review questioning the profeciency of the leading computer security competitors (call them rivals) of the security suites.
What prompted this review was a string of unfortunate and stressful encounters with malicious software and a few untimely repeated days attempting to remove some very nasty and persistant infections.
"Hate spam? Well, some spammers are frequently hijacking individual computers and manipulating them to send out some of that aggravating spam that we all receive in plague proportions.
This can be done completely without your knowledge. This little ploy covers the tracks of the spammer and makes it easier for him to get his message out. A good firewall will alert you when something like this happens so you can keep your computer protected"
According to: The IgotSpam website
Therefore good fast effective protection is essential in today's internet and computer driven society.
Unfortunately the internet has become a virtual minefield of misleading and even downright malicious mis-information.
We often place 100% trust in our personal computers, mobile phones and GPS tracking/navigation devices to safely store our most critical data.
That information is private, and for someone to just gain unlawful access to your banking details, passwords, usernames and other such sensitive material poses a greater risk than most can begin to imagine.
For this reason we have to come to trust reliable and strong anti 'threat' solutions.
But we have to ask, what security software out there really performs the best, and has our interests at heart, not just trying to secure our annual fee for the updates and for their software and services.
There are however a few sites that offer unprecedented security solutions without charging the individual user a penny for very advanced and well supported features.
Take a look at http://www.comodo.com for example.
Over my years of computing and diagnostics experience, I have used and sometimes relied upon many different brands of security products, and can now say I have amassed quite a knowledge first hand with variuos popular main brands.
Click here to sign my Anti-spyware petition, Helping CTEK to fight the spyware creators.
Spyware has never been more of a threat to everything we do while online, knowing how to protect your data and your computers integrity should never be left to chance.
Here's a few very trusted ways to elliminate most internet born malicious threats.
Anti-Spyware:
Lavasoft - Adaware Safer networking - SpyBot S&D
TrendMicro™ - HijackThis™
It's fair to say that most if not all removal utilities like the ones recommended above can do a great job of removing most/all threats, however it's wise to mention that many removal tools can cause instability by removing said threats.
Quite often the original software that trojans are delivered in will no longer function after the associated threats have been purged.
Security vendor Softscan has released its March spam statistics. It found that spam accounted for 96.63% of all email in March, but noticed a sudden 45% drop at the end of the month:
"Although there was a significant drop in spam levels at the reputation filter, we didn't see any drop at our main spam filters," explains Diego d'Ambra, CTO of SoftScan. "This leads us to believe that spammers are cleaning up their infrastructure and are possibly starting to stop sending spam mails that will be automatically picked up by reputation filters anyway.
In some respects the drop in spam is good news, but I'm sure it won't be long until the spammers reveal their next tactic to replace the "missing" junk mail."
The company also found that virus levels remained low, accounting for just 0.07% of all emails. The top 5 virus families in March were:
1 - phishing: 77.66%
2 - dropper: 10.96%
3 - ban: 2.83%
4 - diehard: 2.07%
5 - netsky: 1.79%
Source
Worst virus ever released:
The Mydoom virus was reported to have been the worst ever virus to hit the internet, infecting millions of users within 24 hours of initial detection. it's line of attack was to force the user to restart the pc after freezing it up, and upon restart the virus wiped the zero sector of the hard drive, making it completely useless.
The Love Bug -- was no isolated event, in fact causing many millions in lost hardware and business revenue. Not to mention tens of thousands on home computers rendered totally unusable.
While reading this document please consider replying below with the following comment content.
Your windows version Brand of antivirus/firewall currently used
Anti-spyware software used
Have you ever been infected yes/no
Was it successfully removed
Was it hard to remove
Any experiences that made you change security software
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Contributor's Note
If your computer is experiencing sluggish and unstable behaviour, it's time to investigate the possibility that your computers security has indeed been compromised. CTEK-Solutions provides FREE sound advice and support.
It doesn't hurt to ask, but it never pays to ignore possible infections.
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