How to protect your PC
Most new PCs come with a free trial of Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus. Updates cost around £20 a year when this ends. However, Andrew Ferguson, of Thinkbroadband.com, the specialist website, says that free alternatives such as Grisoft’s AVG, available for download at free.grisoft.com, are adequate. Once virus protection is in place, you must tackle spyware. Microsoft’s free Defender software should suffice. Look for this in your PC’s “all programmes” folder. If it is not there, go to www.microsoft.com/download for a free copy. You should set all anti-virus and anti-spyware software to receive “automatic updates”.
