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24th November 2010, 09:39 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Do you really need antivirus software? I have deeply mixed feelings about antivirus software, especially when it’s part of a big security suite that tries to protect you from every imaginable form of online threat. The companies that sell you that software have an interest in keeping you afraid, and so they publish countless studies proving how dangerous the online world is. They also have a vested interest in proving that you haven’t wasted your subscription dollars on their product, so they need to occasionally (or continually) pop up messages and alerts and reminders to show you exactly which threats they’ve blocked. Even when those “threats” are trivial or nonexistent. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/do-yo...-software/2685
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