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The best way to avoid virus's and i tell everyone this. Don't click everysingle link someone sends you or you see. If you dont visit dodgy sites you wont get dodgy malware. In regards to email. If its from someone you know but your unsure about the link email them back and ask if they sent it to you don't click reply click on a new message and add them in from your address book.
It's people who click every link ever thrown at them that get heaps of viruses. i have never used anti virus and have never needed to.
People challenge me saying yeah ill bet you have heaps of viruses you don't know about because you don't have a program to detect them. So i tell them to bring something over install it and run a scan for every virus they find ill give them $20. To this day no one has found anything, and they cant work it out.
Also anti virus programs slow your computer down particularly the ones that have live protection or whatever they are calling it. as it scans every thing you do on your PC your wasting resources trying to stay protected. My brother couldn't work out why his computer was running so slow. I uninstalled his anti virus and it went from using 97% resources to 5%.
Diligence is the key. DON'T click everything you see and don't go to dodgy sites, and you will be fine.
If your asking how you know if a site is dodgy or not, here is a tip. If your not sure don't click it. If you click it and pray that your anti virus will protect you or that its an OK site. It's usually too late. If you don't know DON'T go there.
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