Yes, it can. Avast tends to offer better protection than some other antivirus programs, even if you use the free edition. However, it uses more system resources, making a more noticeable impact on your computer's performance. If you want good protection, I suggest you use Avast, and perhaps Spybot as well. If you have a slower computer, though, you may want to use a more light-weight program like AVG.
Computer programs that do not have a positive outcome for your PC.
"Preventative manintenance software can be reliable but it depends on the brand and type you purchase. Anti-virus software or internet security software are really good preventive programs. Norton Internet Security serves to protect from internet attacks and scans your computer to check for viruses, etc."
Viruses are computer programs intentionally created by douchebags, to ruin your computer, usually for no good reason. When you download software or media files from really any source, a virus could be hidden in it and that's how it gets on your computer.
The actual application of limewire is free from viruses if you download from the official website. Some of the media that you can download is corrupt and is infected with viruses, worms, trojans, adware and spyware. This really harm your computer.
You need antivirus to protect your computer from being destroyed by malicious software. Some great free programs that do what their ment to do are AVG and AVAST. Try them. Thanks a lot really good answer :) Anti virus software stops hackers software damaging or destroying your computer.
no but having it will always protect you from unwanted viruses
Yes, it does.
Obviously some will be worse than others, but a virus isn't a virus if it doesn't in some way harm your computer. So yes. PS: some viruses and spywares will cause your PC from crash to destroy your system files, it makes you lose all your files or sometime, it will hijack your valuable files and demand for money
Yes. Do not download cheat engine 5.5, you're computer will get a huge viruses. It's not good to cheat any games or stuff.
I think there alike because they all still have that infection in them so it really doesn't make a difference.
A harmless computer virus is really, just a virus that can not do any harm to your computer. It cannot access any files in your computer an cannot activate anything. All it really does is just sit there.
Software is the instructions and the data that a computer operates on (and that allows a computer to operate at all). Software is that part of a computer that you can't kick.