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As I was going through websites after websites, research on new stuffs that can be of help to my visitors here in my blog, I found out this new reference which can be very useful to everyone …… even though you are a novice in PC or laptop computing.

The site is PCTHREAT.com.

If you are feeling threatened … don’t worry.

This site is extremely useful as it covers those fake anti-virus or spyware programs that are hyped to safeguard your computers but actually performing otherwise.

We know, on the internet, there are floods of anti-virus and spyware programs. But which ones are fake … hmm …. that’s a question few could answer. Even worse some of these programs suddenly appear on the desktop as a pop-up prompting you that you are infected ( it happens to almost everyone ….. me included) but actually they just wanted you buy the software.

PCTHREAT.com is extremely useful as it added in-depth info and knowledge on how these parasite softwares and how to remove them safely (instructions provided ….. ain’t that cool ).

Not only that this site will also showcase the top 3 genuine softwares that will certainly safeguard your PC and laptop.

Check out this site and I’m sure you will love it.

The answer to the question above is definately no.

But can you install 2 antivirus on one laptop. A definate “YES” except some antivirus from Norton &  McAfee.

This question normally poped out by overally corncerned laptop users and I’m not very surprised by these questions as privacy and security are the main agendas in these questions to be made.

One thing for sure ….. you do not and need not install 2 or more antivirus in your laptop.

But ….

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I’ve tried a couple of free for personal use anti-virus on my laptop and most has been good but quite annoying.

Avg Free, Avira Anti-Vir, Avast Home Edition, Bit Defender has been good but a little annoying when it comes to certain files which falsely detected it as trojans.

This can be really annoying as some of the files application file needed to run a certain program like autoplay my portable hard drive … etc.

Another annoyance is that it tends to consume quite a lot of system memory during updating even some with an audio alert that says Your System has been updated thing.

It’s useful for novice users out there but for me I’m in a need to find much more better alternative.

Came in Threatfire.
This anti-virus come in the free and paid version.

One thing I like about this software is that it is light-weight, uses less system resource and updates in the background.

You might not even know whether it is updating !

But it does the job well ….. protects your pc against virus and spyware with less annoyances

Get Threatfire AntiVirus by clicking the link here.