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Virus Protection For PC Users Everywhere

 In the age of computers when people have almost all of their important data in digital form, you can not take any risk. As computer viruses have emerged as the most damaging threat, the need of Virus protection for PC has become more and more important. Here is a look at some of the anti virus tools that you may consider for protection of your computer.

Kaspersky Anti Virus is known as one of the best anti virus tools in market. There are a number of information security companies which provide you products that use the scanning engine licensed from Kaspersky Labs. Moreover Kaspersky products are also well known for the fact that they are updated extremely fast. In fact new updates are released at intervals of twice or thrice a day, It is breakout response time is also less then two hours on an average.

Despite all these features, Kaspersky is optimized and does not act as a system hog. It is light and can be used on computer without a big performance hit. Kaspersky is also very affordable considering the features you get.

The second option you have is NOD32. This is the best option that you have if you want to get an antivirus software that really works. It has been getting 100% detection awards for almost half a decade now. At the same time NOD32 is also the lightest antivirus system that is currently available in the market . It would not eat computing resources and it would also make sure that your computer is free of every single virus that attacks it, what more can you ask for.

Scan speed you may ask. In 2005, Virus Bulletin said that this is an antivirus tool that can scan at a pace that is five time faster than any other antivirus in the market. It is also the product with highest pass rate in the Virus Bulletin tests. There is a free 30 day trial version and you can purchase an annual subscription for just about $60. This is a dirt cheap price for a product so well rated.

Then there is Norton Antivirus which is a story of riches to rags and back to the riches. Prior to 2002 Norton Antivirus was the most popular and widely used Anitvirus. In fact it was the de facto standard of a good antivirus product. From 2003 to 2006 the versions that were released were complete bloatware and were summarily panned. In 2007 the company decided to listen to what people want and delivered a really good product. The version released in 2008, repaired most of the damage.

As of now Norton Antivirus is one of the best solutions again and thanks to the intelligent pricing by Symantec it is more affordable. A free version of this tool meant for virus protection for PC with limited subscription is included with Google Pack.