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Antivirus Antidote of Viruses

What’s the Virus? And Why We Use Antivirus:

VIRUS stands for Vital Information Resources Under Seize.

VIRUS

A computer virus (malware) is software that loaded on a computer without our knowledge.

A virus has a property to copy itself and spread itself from one computer to another computer. A virus can affect the normal functionality of a computer system. Damage the data that you may save.

The inventor of the First Computer Virus

The first computer virus was invented by two brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, in 1986. The first virus attacked MS-DOS. The name of this virus is Brain.

Types of viruses

• Resident virus
• Direct action virus
• Boot virus
• Overwrite virus
• Directory virus
• File infector
• Antivirus

Antivirus is a program that is designed for detecting and removing a computer virus.

It is also called anti-malware.

Founder of Antivirus Software

John McAfee was the founder of antivirus software (anti-malware) in 1987 or 1989. The first antivirus name is McAfee antivirus.

McAfee antivirus software blocks the virus from entering the computer system and kills the viruses that have some broken through the firewall.

Role of antivirus software

Antivirus software not only detects and removes the virus but also designed to fight against other threats such as Trojan horses, worms and more.

Why we need antivirus software?

Antivirus software is the guard for the computer system. If the antivirus software is no installed on a computer, then this is sure that the virus can attack the computer in few minutes some effects are given below that affect the computer if the antivirus is not installed.

•   Removable media
•   Files downloaded from the internet
•   E-mail attachment

Affects:

•    If the user opens an email that attached to a virus and the user opens this attachment, then the virus can spread in the computer system.

•     If the user downloads a game that has the virus if the user opens a game the virus activated and spread in the computer.

•    A user attaches such removable media that infected with the virus then the virus is activated in the computer system and affected the functionality of the computer.

Signs of viruses

Few signs indicate the presence of a virus on your computer.

•    The computer begins to operate slower than normal.

•    A virus-infected file will have double extensions such as file.docx.vbs or file.xl.exe.

•    Applications we store on the computer do not work as usual.

•    Some parts of the disk drive became difficult to access.

•    The computer restarts on its own.

To avoid computer viruses from entering the computer system install good antivirus software and update the antivirus on the regular basis because new and more powerful viruses are invented day by day and the software companies update their antivirus software for handling these viruses

There are many types of antivirus software that have different purpose some of the popular and best antivirus software are given below:

• Norton Antivirus software
• AVG Antivirus software
• McAfee Antivirus software
• Kaspersky Antivirus software
• SmartDog Antivirus software
• Symantec Antivirus software

Any type of antivirus downloaded from the internet.

Norton Antivirus software:

Norton Antivirus is an anti-malware software product.

You can protect your computer from computer viruses by scanning your computer regularly with Norton Antivirus software. This is useful for protecting the computer for known computer viruses. You can download free antivirus from the internet.