McAfee and Norton Antivirus

McAfee and Norton are two Antivirus programs protect your computer against viruses. McAfee is one of the most famous fighter for the computer virus and is 5 euros cheaper than competitor Norton Antivirus. This article is about the two most Antivirus programs McAfee and Norton.

McAfee
What is McAfee?
Here are some steps that McAfee against viruses.

* Securing your computer against viruses, spyware and hackers, so you can surf safely on the Internet.
* Unsafe vermeiden websites with McAfee SiteAdvisor.
* Continuous updates free downloads so that the computer is equipped with the latest software.
* Standard features you can customize.

Security
The computer almost every day new software that it installs immediately. He searches the computer for viruses and blocks them so that they do not damage the computer can process. The computer is invisible on the Internet so that hackers can not be. Also, the system for so many days a system scan. By scanning all unnecessary files so your system is not full of stuff sitting. He removed the dangerous files automatically.

Site Advisor
McAfee Site Advisor is part of McAfee. It is free for download on the McAfee site. The SiteAdvisor site indicates whether a 'good' or 'bad' is. If a site is no viruses, etc., a green tick behind the site name to it. The site advisor is no antivirus, so you have your antivirus program is not discarded.

Free Scan
This program can be downloaded for free on the McAfee site. This program helps Antivirus smaller, sometimes almost impossible to find, virus to detect and remove. If the computer has been searched, a list of files containing such viruses.


Norton

Norton searches the computer for viruses. If he has found it immediately removed. All viruses come in via the Internet. Most e-mail or downloaded music. Limewire is an example of a free music download site where you as a user likely to have viruses. Viruses affect parts of programs in which files or even the whole program away. If these viruses are not addressed, it's likely that they jump to the next program to which to attack. For example, the whole computer crashing.
If Norton has the whole computer will be searched for viruses, check each file that the computer arrives. So keep your computer clean. If Norton for a while on your computer is it to spend so much time re-search all files for viruses.

Update
Once you've bought a Norton, it is not necessary for this each year. Each year you can download new updates so that the system cope with new types of viruses. Through the program on Internet Live Update, you can each year, the latest updates.

Remove
It is very difficult to remove Norton. You can not just simple un-install it. Here are some steps to NAV (Norton Anti Virus) removal.

* Remove first Norton via the normal way: via: Start-control panel software, select Norton and click remove.
* Click on A: Norton AV remover and then double-click Remove.exe.
* A window appears, choose no.
* There is still a window appears, select the version you are using and click Yes.
* There is still a window appears, choose Yes.
* There is still a window appears, choose Yes.
* Install the new version Anti Virus and it's done.