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Congratulating Mr. and Mrs.

This is for my friend in Holland, getting married today.

Best antivirus for Windows PC

People keep asking me what antivirus software I would recommend them.

Pfft, how the heck would I know, I don’t use Windows or even care so much for anti-virus myself. I don’t even understand how people get viruses in the first place…?! Probably they’re searching Google for, say, Miley Cyrus or Emma Watson’s resent nipple slip pictures and end up on some scam site? Or install dubious pirated software? Haha, deserves them right then! :P

One thing I have to say… People, if you’re running Windows XP, one big thing to improve security is to NOT RUN THE COMPUTER AS AN ADMINISTRATOR. That’s just plain foolish. Only in Windows world you can do that (a stupidity Windows Vista isn’t repeating).

Usually I just said “Use Avast, Avira or AVG”. Those are the three names I can remember by heart. I’ve not done any extensive testing lately, but I’ve generally hear good reviews about them. Time to do a little bit of bit of digging.

Seems like there are people and companies constantly testing these software packages. That’s neat, now I just need to tell people where they can go and figure out for themselves. Here are some links to test results of Anti-Virus software for Windows:

http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html (check the Retrospective/ProActive Test for May 2008 unless August results are up yet)

So there you go! Have fun deciphering the results!