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Most of us are using computers on a daily basis for online browsing, downloading or playing games. Every second of that time, somewhere hidden deep inside the web, is this tiny virus, Trojan or a hacker who is trying to access every bit of information on our precious hard drives.

Sounds scary I know, but there is more than one way to get essential security for your system without having to spend a single penny for it.

Under the name of Comodo Antivirus resides a freeware multi-layered security application that ensures complete protection against Trojans, viruses, buffer overflows, worms, zero-day attacks, spyware and hackers.

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The internet is flooded every minute with malware applications and we need to stay protected at all times. Unfortunately, some anti-virus or anti-malware applications aren’t 100% accurate and this is where the online scanners come in. There are many solutions out there and today, we decided to present to you Jotti’s online scanner.

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asp_scanMany developers are offering free security applications that can scan your computer for spyware or viruses free, but they won’t clean them until you pay for that program. Of course, there are applications that find a great number of false threats on your system, just to pull out those dollars from your pocket. Advanced System Protector didn’t fall in any category and it’s actually capable of scanning your system AND cleaning the found threats for free. You might also think that a free security application it’s very weak compared with its paid counterparts, again, you might be pleasantly suprised.

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appremoverI think we all had problems uninstalling troublesome security products such as anti-viruses or anti-spyware applications. The main reason behind this is that many security programs leave alot of traces behind such as registry entires or files, that interfere with the well-being of the system or better yet, create even more problems when we need to install other security applications or newser versions. Unfortunately, this problem isn’t quite so 90′s, it seems many of the top security solutions are ‘rooting’ themselves in our systems.

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It seems like the number of cyber criminals is growing and it reached the Mac users. The Mac systems were unaffected for a long time, the worst case scenarios were trojans that needed several confirmation from the user, to be installed and infect the system. Now, things may be a little different, as Apple posted on their support site last month. Apple strongly encourages the use of security solutions, such as anti-virus software or anti-spyware.

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While personally I don’t dislike Norton or any of the Symantec products, everybody knows that Norton is a resource eating application and many of its users give up on Norton in favor of other security solutions such as Kaspersky, AVG, Avira etc.

Now, Norton is a little tricky to uninstall due to the fact that it leaves many registry entries and folders intact.

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The BitDefender family has crossed the Windows platform and gained a new member within the Mac OS universe. SoftWin, the team behind BitDefender, released the Mac version of the popular security software solution.

The software package includes the popular BitDefender scanner, real-time protection and automatic updates. BitDefender 2009 wants to keep your computer away from spyware, malware and viruses, all in real-time using the latest engine and signatures. While Mac users haven’t really needed a security solution, SoftWin’s intentions regarding BitDefender aren’t very clear so far.

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