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Kaspersky Anti-virus has been a renowned antivirus software for years now. The company that develops the software is known as Kaspersky Labs.

Kaspersky Labs has been founded by professional Russian computer security experts and analysts in 1997.

The company has a reputation to often be the first to identify new viruses and to devise methods to combat them. Kaspersky Anti-virus has long been used in Russia and parts of Europe.

However, with its latest release of version 2009, it is believed that Kaspersky Anti-virus is now one of the most popular anti-virus software in the market, outperforming competing products of most of its US rivals such as Symantec and Trend Micro. Read the rest of this entry →

Have you experienced any unusual behaviors on your computer system after downloading a file from an unknown source?

Have you had a corrupted data replaced by unknown files stored on your hard drive? Have you had a slow internet connection because of high bandwidth usage?

Well, think again.  These things are possibly caused by malware’s malicious actions.

Malware is any program or software that has malicious actions designed specifically to damage a system.

Malware starts by entering a computer system through different ways like attaching itself as an email attachment or downloading itself once a user visits a malicious web site. Read the rest of this entry →

When the discussion comes to securing your computer from viruses and malware, the obvious choice that comes to our mind is surely using any “anti-virus” and keeping it up-to-date.

However if you consider your options and weigh them, then no wonder you would realize that there are other stuff that you can really do…

These are rather more effective than just installing an effective up-to-date anti-virus, so let’s see all the options one by one…

• Anti-Virus

Firstly when you say the word Anti-virus, it is basically a software designed to protect your computer against known viruses, but with one or the other new virus emerging on a daily basis, anti-virus programs need regular updates. Read the rest of this entry →