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Your computer systems are undoubtedly your wonderful assistants in every walk of your life. Certainly, they are your selfless friends, but often these friendly devices are highly vulnerable to virus attacks and rouge software programs. They become machines of misery whenever they fall prey to the virus or rouge software programs.

Virus protection is general term for the protection against computer virus programs using antivirus software that are computer programs designed to identify, thwart and wipe out computer viruses and other malicious software (malware). Virus protection is sometimes also termed as "antivirus". Your antivirus software programs offer great virus protection to your computer systems. The story of virus protection programs began in late 1980s.

The “mks_vir,” the first edition of Polish antivirus software came out in 1987. The program came out in the Polish language version. Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit was released by Briton Alan Solomon in 1988. However, in 1990, the market witnessed about nineteen commercial antivirus programs that included Norton AntiVirus and ViruScan from McAfee.

Virus protection software programs are mainly available as COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE and FREEWARE programs.

There are a number of commercial software & freeware programs available on the market. Some of the notable commercial software programs are AntiVir, avast!, AVG Anti-Virus, F-Secure, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee VirusScan, NOD32, Norman, Norton AntiVirus, Panda Antivirus, Sophos Anti-Virus, Vba32 AntiVirus, Virus Chaser, Virus Buster (PC-cillin), Windows Live OneCare, and ZoneAlarm AntiVirus. And, some of the famous freeware programs include AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic, AVG Anti-Virus Free, avast! Home, BitDefender 8 Free Edition, ClamXav, Comodo AntiVirus, McAfee® VirusScan Plus, PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition, and Rising Antivirus 2007. 

Your virus protection software programs typically accomplish their protection tasks in two different ways; one, scrutinizing (scanning) files to search and match viruses with the definitions in virus dictionary, and second, identifying suspicious behavior from computer program that might indicate infections.

Your virus protection software programs provide – security to your PC/computer systems, virus warning, and help deleting computer viruses. These powerful programs help to strengthen your computer and network security, and also help in PC network maintenance.