Ot Computer Trojan Protection

[🪦 Martoch ●]

Just a little tidbit for some of you that seem to be a bit misguided about what a router does...although it can surely help protect you from unwanted connections, its purpose is not to protect your system from viruses. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":wink:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"wink.gif\" /> If having antivirus on your system bogs it down that much, you have other problems...lack of RAM, too many startup apps, etc. Stating that all antivirus programs are overrated is absolutely not true. Some of them are more memory intensive than others (typically the all-in-one security suites), but I've installed Avast on literally hundreds of systems and it only slightly slowed ones that were already in desperate need of an upgrade. It has 7 scanners that you can enable/disable if you don't use that particular software...IMs, Outlook, etc. Norton, however, is another issue...talk about RAM hog. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":blink:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blink.gif\" />Your first line of defense is yourself, but trust me when I say this (years of experience talking) that most people <u>need</u> an antivirus program because they're just clickety click click click all over the place and "why is my computer so slow...I just bought it 3 months ago!?!" <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":tongue:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" />