Getting a licensed antivirus
Written on Tuesday, 1 of December, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Last weekend, I received a package from a friend of mine from the Philippines. It was a flash drive full of pictures from my last year’s trip to their province. I viewed the pictures in my laptop, they were all great until my computer hung up.
I was not so sure then what went wrong so I just ignored the problem and restarted my laptop. Again It restarted. That time I was already worried because most of my files were not backed up.
I asked help from a friend of mine to see if he can do something about my laptop. He did some checks and voila! He pinpointed the problem. A rootkit virus infected my laptop which cause my system registry to be corrupted. I had a free antivirus installed but it turned out to be ineffective. So I was advised to get a licensed antivirus and back up my files. I always thought that a free updated antivirus is already enough to secure my pc from being infected. I was wrong. And so I learned that free antivirus software covers only some basic security stuff. Later I’ll warn my friend about the virus so that she could do a scan on her PC.
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