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Getting a good anti virus rating before spending your hard earned cash on buying an anti virus is crucially important these days, with the sea of anti virus software available, and with all of them claiming to be the product to end all troubles. However, like they say, there are ratings and there are ratings. How do you get to know if an anti virus or software product rating is genuine, unbiased, and worth wasting your time even considering? Here are 3 quick tips to help you be sure as you use an anti virus rating to get the product you desire.

How many products does it mention and recommend?
This is almost a no-brainier. Some ratings are specifically tailored to sell a specific product, and you can easily notice this if there is just one product recommended by the review/rating agency, while it belittles all others.

However, you have to be a bit careful when making this particular observation as sometimes, a unbiased product reviewer finds that it is just one product out of a couple he is reviewing which fits in with what, in his belief, would make a customer who gets and uses it happy. In a case like this, the reviewer might similarly recommend just one or two products, and you'd still be on the smarter side by listening to him.

Are you going for just one view?
With product ratings and reviews, it is always better to go for what are termed "review of reviews". This type of product rating does not just test and publish reviews, but collates the results of professional tests and ratings, reviews, and consumer
Eports on each particular product to get a more general and unbiased assessment of it. This kind of rating is always much better than one individual or company testing a product and giving just its own personal evaluation of it. also gives you a much less risky recommendation, as too many people cannot be wrong: while, with just one opinion, you might be looking at something written by someone whose tastes/preferences differ considerably from yours; and thus on getting the recommended product, you could be hugely disappointed on discovering that the product is not so superior, and that the reviewer(s) probably just liked some of the features, which are not really important to you.

Do they cite any reputable rating agencies as sources?
With this kind of rating, you can determine just how good the rating or review is by examining the quality of the sources quoted in the piece.

This could be a bit difficult for you to determine, but in the software review category in general, and anti virus reviews in particular, some of the more highly regarded rating outfits are: PC World, PC Magazine, CNet.com, Scott's Newsletter and Federal Computer Week. Others are Computer Shopper of the UK, PC Pro and Amazon.

Ensure that at least some among this list are mentioned as some of the sources for the research material used in writing the report/rating.
These are just 3 tips to ensure you get the best from using a rating before making your anti virus purchase.
Good luck in your purchase!

Computer Virus
In order to understand what a computer virus is, you must first understand what a virus is. It is actually a small organism that can only reproduce within a living cell or body. As such, it is usually harmful to the cell or body in which it lives. This is why a virus can make you sick or cause you to have a disease.

This relates to computers because a computer virus is actually a harmful computer program that can damage your computer's files. It is even possible for it to damage your computer. This is because a computer virus is able to duplicate and spread itself within a computer or computer network. However, you may not even know that your computer has a virus because it can usually hide itself really well within a program, file or document.

So, who would want to create a computer virus? A criminal who creates a computer virus would need to be somewhat talented and have nothing better to do with their time. Their only purpose for creating a computer virus is to cause both trouble and damage.

Today there are many different names that are used to describe a computer virus. The names that are used to describe these various viruses include Macro Viruses, Email Viruses and Trojan Horses. Of course, each of these different viruses has a slightly different description but they all act in very similar ways. Each of these viruses is able to spread through your computer and infect its files and documents. A computer virus can also spread itself throughout the Internet and local computer networks or removable storage devices. However, since the virus is hidden, it is hard to detect and easily spread.
Once a virus enters your computer it can either be very harmful or simply annoying.
What you can do to protect your Computer and important data.

Install Anti virus Software.
What is Antivirus Software - Antivirus or Anti-Virus software is computer program, the roll of antivirus is to protect computer against viruses and worms. This program actively guards computer from getting infected with Viruses and worms, it will stop people trying to heck your computer or stop viruses from deleting important data. The Antivirus software helps in protecting your personal data, corporate data from attacks on your personal computer or on servers. Like taking medicine helps in curing body virus, similarly by installing antivirus software helps in protecting computer and data. Apart from installing Antivirus software you should also install firewall on your computer, this helps stop malicious attack on your computer from people who are looking personal and credit card information, they steel your personal and financial information. Good antivirus software will scan your hard disk for viruses, scan your incoming email attachments and stop pop up ads appearing on screen etc.
If you don't have antivirus software installed on computer, you can buy one of several companies.
Microsoft has product called Windows Live OneCare - Usually starts from $50 per year.
Symantec has Norton product
MacAfee
PC Doctor
Kaspersky Antivirus Personal
Panda Anti-Virus Titanium & Platinum
NOD32 Anti-Virus
Command Antivirus
McAfee Antivirus Virus Scan Online


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