{"id":335,"date":"2007-07-23T22:15:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/23\/efficiency-tip-90-free-anti-virus\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:27","slug":"efficiency-tip-90-free-anti-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/23\/efficiency-tip-90-free-anti-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #90 &#8211; Free Anti-Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/25\/61967473_7b54023311.jpg\" height=\"320\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 320px\" \/>I see a lot of computer problems. Everyone in the neighborhood brings every problem to my door. There is nothing worse than something that can be prevented for free. I&#8217;m talking about a computer infected with a virus.<\/p>\n<p>There are a thousand ways of catching one of these things. The most common method is via email. As a rule, you should never open an attachment. Never. Period. I know you are going to open up files your friends send you. Everyone does. That&#8217;s why the virus creators use email to spread their wares.<\/p>\n<p>I use AVG Anti-Virus. It is free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/free.grisoft.com\/\">http:\/\/free.grisoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, it automatically checks for updates.\u00a0 All my email gets filtered through the virus checker as well.\u00a0 Something else that is just as important &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t slow my computer down.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t download illegal software and don&#8217;t open email attachments.\u00a0 Those two things will protect you from most of the problems out there.\u00a0 A free anti-virus program will take care of the rest.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=0.42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of computer problems. Everyone in the neighborhood brings every problem to my door. There is nothing worse than something that can be prevented for free. I&#8217;m talking about a computer infected with a virus. There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/23\/efficiency-tip-90-free-anti-virus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}