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          Fraudulent Antivirus programs alert.

Recently there have been some evolving antivirus programs that trap you into buying their shoddy services and report inaccurately that you have a virus on your system.  The primary of these is Antivirus 2009 aka; Antivirus XP, Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2010.  Please be very cautious about installing anything that does not look trustworthy on your system.

          Good Free Antivirus Programs.

AVG antivirus is a nice small antivirus to run to keep your system protected.  It can be downloaded from free.grisoft.com.

Avast antivirus is another.  It can be downloaded from www.avast.com.

A nice open source package is Spyware Terminator.  This bundle includes Clam antivirus which was designed for use on Linux machines and is very capable on windows machines.  Plus since it is open source it is okay to license on your business computers. Download from www.spywareterminator.com.

Remember back in the day when a virus would infect you by accidentally executing it or getting tricked into executing it?  Well that isn’t the case anymore.  Most new viruses can auto execute from just about any website on the fly.  Unfortunately there is not a lot that can be done to prevent it other than making sure you have an up-to-date antivirus software, a pop-up blocker and some kind of malware protection.  In the case that all else fails Meuchel Computer Services & Office Supplies provides a complete virus removal service with Windows updates and temporary file removal.  We also check to make sure you are current on your antivirus subscriptions.

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