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McAfee and Facebook team up
Recently Facebook announced that in an effort to try and stem the tide of people getting infected while facebooking, they’ve teamed up with McAfee to offer free antivirus suite. While a great and innovative way to try and keep their users safe, it is far from a perfect solution.
Users wanting to take advantage of this deal will simply need to sign into their facebook account, click on McAfee page link and become a fan of McAfee. You will then be able to download and install it (after giving a credit card). For more info on the Mc-fbook deal click here.

You’ll receive a free 6 month subscription to their full security suite and a discount after the 6 months is up. However, this is not an end all be all solution and you must still exorcise caution while facebooking and tweeting. Phishing scams to steal your facebook account info is still very prominent. Moreover, social media like facebook are one of the most common ways to get infected with a fake antivirus like we’ve warned about before.

We also see many customers on a weekly basis that are “protected” (notice the “quote” thingy’s?) by McAfee, Norton and the rest of the big names. These customers say, “but i thought i was protected.” In the end all you can do is be smart, don’t click on links without being careful about what you’re doing. If you’re not sure, just don’t do it. Same goes with email. Safe surfing is key to keeping your computer clean. It is also very important to take steps to make sure your computer is updated with microsoft security updates and you have a good antivirus. Lately, with all the computers we see that have been infected while being under the “protection” of McAfee and others we just can’t qualify them as adequate. In fact we’ve found that the latest free Microsoft Security Essentials free antivirus is in many ways a better level of protection than many of the big name AV’s.

However, if you want the best AV we’ve found, then follow the bread crumbs to Vipre AV. Take a look at our post here to learn more. We have had tremendous success and so have all of our customers that have made the smart decision to protect themselves with Vipre antivirus.

While we know this has nothing to do with computers. We here at The Computer Doctor of Richmond got into an heated debate about this world news story. While one of our staff members is in favor of Jay Leno, the good news is he doesn’t have authorization to post on our site
Thus we at TCDoR.com want to put our official and very powerful support behind Team Conan O’Brien. Conan, we hope NBC makes the right decision.

We here at The Computer Doctor of Richmond have been big fans of Vipre Anti Virus for a few years now. We know that it’s extremely powerful and unique heuristic scan engine and its small horsepower requirements make it the perfect choice for every environment. Not to mention that it is extremely effective and truly superior to virtually all other brand name anti virus alternatives out there.

We will have more to come in the near future about Vipre AV. However, in the mean time, should you have any questions about it, feel free to check out their site or simply email us. http://www.vipreantivirus.com/

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Microsoft’s free antivirus, “Security Essentials”

Microsoft released their free antivirus, Security Essentials a few days ago.  And to make a long story short, it aint half bad!  It is a decent replacement for other free solutions or the option of simply going naked with not AV software at all.  It is relatively fast at scanning and has a small foot print (meaning it doesn’t require a lot of horse power like some other brand name AV’s).  It also does an ok job of finding infections when compared to other AV’s.

We here at TCDoR.com have started testing it to see how it stacks up against some of the big dogs like Norton, McAfee, Vipre and others.  However, our initial tests have been relatively positive as with much of the rest of the industry.  In fact techreview.com agreed and said it is quite good.

If you’re interested in trying it out, go to www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ and download it.