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I agree most worms have inbuilt codes to fool most of the popular antiviruses, but still i prefer to have some software installed in my pc for an assurance, thats all. I also used to have Zone alarm Pro Friewall+Antispy but i uninstalled it and now happy with the default windows firewall and AdAware. I used to run McAfee and Kaspersky Pro edition but they slowed own my pc heavily. And i prefer to use a light weight antivirus like AVG/Avira. I am a geeky nerdish doc who knows some tech tips just enough to survive in the cruel online world, not more. Now answering the question you asked in your post, They do need a good antivirus otherwise i am sure they will catch a virus/spyware with in a month. You are computer professional, you can manage not get a virus from internet, but what about the average вЂnot so geekyвЂ™ internet user? Majority of internet users in this world open their pc to check their emails and play their DVDs.

Zone alarm pro 2007 download#

I would probably run a Antivirus scanner all the time if I did download a lot from Rapidshare, P2P or questionable websites. To make this work I have to be careful of what I download and where I download it. They quickly scan the file and let me know if a virus or trojan is attached to it. It happens though that I come upon a questionable file and I decided to use online scanners for those files instead. Yes that is right, if the virus is not known they probably let it slip through. Their recognition rate lies anywhere between 80-99% of known viruses and Trojans. Even more troubling is the fact, that no Antivirus software is perfect. It either stops the user from downloading and executing an infected file or prevents the opening of malicious files that were send to the user by mail, on disc or Instant Messenger. This let to my conclusion that I did not need a Antivirus software, because frankly, Antivirus software is basically only there to prevent the user from doing something stupid. It did however slow down system startup and the scan of new files also used system resources. I have been using Antivirus software for a very long time and even though I kept it up to date it never caught a single virus, worm or Trojan.