{"id":263,"date":"2010-10-25T01:21:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T07:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/computers-2\/antivirus-software\/"},"modified":"2010-11-24T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T13:27:43","slug":"antivirus-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/computers-2\/antivirus-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Antivirus Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3326\/3473950631_f7787399ac_z.jpg?zz=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Attribution\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Attribution\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/cc_icon_attribution_small.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">Some rights reserved<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/creative_stock\/\">Creativity103<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Once you have your internet connection established on a computer with a fresh Windows installation, the first thing to download and get up and running is some Antivirus Software.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">My current favourite is Microsoft Security Essentials.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security_essentials\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security_essentials\/\"><font size=\"4\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security_essentials\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">I prefer this package because it is free, lightweight and unobtrusive. It automatically updates without you having to think about it. Works a treat on Windows 7 for example.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Otherwise, I have also used Avast! antivirus over the last few years (note \u2013 don\u2019t install more than one antivirus program \u2013 this can seriously slow down your system). Avast! is free, with automatic updates, but you have to renew your \u2018subscription\u2019 every year (relatively painless to do). Also a voice will remind you every time \u2018virus database has been updated\u2019 which might begin to annoy, but this reminder can be easily turned off.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\/free-antivirus-download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\/free-antivirus-download\"><font size=\"4\">http:\/\/www.avast.com\/free-antivirus-download<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some rights reserved by Creativity103 Once you have your internet connection established on a computer with a fresh Windows installation, the first thing to download and get up and running is some Antivirus Software. My current favourite is Microsoft Security Essentials. http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security_essentials\/ I prefer this package because it is free, lightweight and unobtrusive. It automatically&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,142],"tags":[144,143],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-software","tag-antivirus","tag-essential-windows-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}