Best Antivirus Software

Getting the best antivirus software for your computer is absolutely essential. This is because there are unfortunately tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of malicious computer programs - called 'viruses' - around today.

Viruses are programs which are designed to replicate themselves (i.e. spread to other computers where possible) and they usually harm the computer in some way. This might take the form of deleting or corrupting important system files, harming the computer's performance, or (in the best case scenario) simply replicating itself and spreading to as many other computers as possible and then only doing minor harm. This 'best case scenario' is naturally still undesirable though!

A virus is a type of computer malware (malicious software). Other types of malware includes spyware (harmful programs which spy on what you are doing on your computer), adware (programs which infect your computer and display adverts in undesirable places) and trojan horses (programs which pretend to be helpful to the user, but actually perform unauthorized, harmful actions). Viruses are the most common type of malware, although any good antivirus software will usually protect against some of these other forms of malware too.

Clearly, avoiding viruses and other malware is a necessity for your computer's health. Hence this section has been written which contains articles describing various computer antivirus software for download (i.e. pieces of software which protect your system), including both paid and free (freeware) antivirus software.

Paid antivirus software is typically better than free antivirus software since paid programs tend to come with more features and better protection, although this is not always true. There are some free programs which offer better protection than some paid programs. However this is obviously the exception because it is still true that most paid antivirus programs are better than their free counterparts.

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