What no Antivirus software!
Your probably wondering why I don’t use Antivirus software. I’m going tell you why and see if you approve or hate the idea. I know it isn’t going to be a popular believe but we all have our reason why we want to be protected and what we are try protect against. I on the other hand know some ways to protect my computer from viruses and thus I will not use antivirus software to interfere or slow me down.
I’m not saying that it isn’t good to use. I’m just not going to use it and you really shouldn’t either. Here’s why!
Most Viruses disable Anti-virus!
If I told you that even if you have an antivirus software on your system that it has probably been disabled by an virus, so that you didn’t know that it wasn’t really doing you any good! You probably haven’t seen any problems from your antivirus software lately but I am sure it isn’t doing it’s job like it should. I’ve seen in thep ast where unless I update my Antivirus manually, the software would never update thus hiding the virus from detection of the antivirus. This is something that has been a constant problem with Antivirus software, they are programs and thus can be fixed to do the virus needs.
I don’t use Windows that much!
I know you probably know this but lately haven’t needed to use Windows but instead I have been use Kubuntu for all my computer needs. Since I have an HTC inspire to let me do all the fun stuff on the net, I no longer have any need to use my computer for anything other than blogging and streaming of some of the content out there. I’ve not had many uses for my laptop lately because of the Android OS being used more and more.
I don’t want to be slowed down!
As many of you know, viruses no matter whhat they are used for will most likely slow down you because of the way the virus writer might of wrote the virus. They seldom do any testing of the new virus and thus will likely interfere with programs and slow down Windows. So I tend not to get onto the Windows system unless I really need to. I usually keep t o my Kubuntu O/S, and even though it sounds like Linux is Virus free. It’s really not, I just surf the web like I should. I don’t give myself super root access. I also make sure I am not logging in as an Administrator on Linux or Windows. These are some reasons why I don’t use Antivirus. If you don’t go to websites that you don’t trust then you will likely never get a virus but that doesn’t mean you should not use an Antivirus.
Who needs Antivirus!
That is something that is a big controversy, but most of the time it is big companies who have laptops all over the world and always connecting to insecure websites and insecure wifi outlets. So if you are keeping your laptop home and you know how to surf the web and not download anything that you aren’t looking for then you will be safer than most people. It is those people who do this that cause the most problems. I’m really smart when it comes to which software I will install or use and which software I tend to stay away from. Nothing is set in stone but I usually let my instincts tell me if it is safe or not. If you do some of these things you are far better off than the average man!
Paul Sylvester
