Back to the school, an antivirus is next to nothing

One of the most damaging behavior I have noticed among computer users, especially home users, is that their lack of interest to keep an anti virus software installed on their systems. People believes that as their systems are working fine without any problems, there is no virus infections and they don't need an anti virus. Some believes that computer viruses are spread only through the internet and he is safe as he rarely goes online.

These careless behavior leads to severe data loss in the form of an unrecoverable system failure which ends up in a clean format and re-installation of the entire system. Even though many home computers does not have anything valuable to be kept secured, it will certainly contain information about bank and credit card details, personal photos and home videos etc which when reaches black hands, may prove dangerous.

It is therefor very critical to install an anti virus program on your computer, even if you are using it as a home computer or you are not connecting to the internet. For home users, freeware programs like AVG Free Edition (http://free.avg.com) or Avast Home Edition(http://www.avast.com) will work. Remember to keep the virus definitions updated daily and if not possible, at least once in a week. If you are running a home business, you might want to buy and install a commercial antivirus which comes with more features and added security.

The following is the top ten list of commercial anti virus software as reported by TopTen Reviews.

1. BitDefender Antivirus
2. Kaspersky Antivirus
3. ESET NOD32
4. AVG Antivirus
5. Vipre
6. F-Secure
7. Trend Micro
8. McAfee Virus Scan
9. Norton Antivirus
10. CA Antivirus

(Source : http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/)