There’s no quicker way to infect your system than to tread online without the aid of a firewall. Unscrupulous saboteurs the world over are constantly on the hunt for unprotected PCs, and when they find them, it’s open season for unleashing keyloggers, dialers, Trojans, and other toxic trash the riff-raff carry in their arsenals. But with a firewall, you always know exactly what’s trying to access your PC, leaving you in command of who comes and goes.
Just surfing the Internet can be enough to infect your system and grant malware uninvited access to your hard drive. But what about the malware that is invited? Malware writers know that the quickest way to infiltrate a system is through the end user, and there’s no shortage of dirty code masquerading under the guise of helpful applications. By the time you realize you’ve been duped, it’s too late, and it’s here that ForceField ultimately falls short.
A computer virus is a piece of software or code capable of reproducing itself and spreading to other systems, but the term is often used to describe a multitude of threats. The effects of malware can range from mildly annoying to completely debiliting, sometimes costing corporations thousands of dollars in downtime and manpower to heal the outbreak. Let’s have a look at the different types of infections.
Most enthusiasts view McAfee as just another resource hog often found in OEM systems alongside perfomancepillaging bloatware. Fair assessment or not, this is the perception McAfee’s up against in trying to win over the PC elite. It helps that the company isn’t blissfully unaware of the importance placed on perfomance; its latest edition promises to raise the bar with a more efficient engine that won’t drag your system down.
