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Beware of the Rombertik virus
A vicious, yet serendipitously topical computer virus is making the rounds, and it has an added capability that can cause you great difficulty and lost data.
Known as Rombertik, it does what most viruses do: Infects your machine, steals data, remains hidden, that sort of thing. Mundane, in the parlance of malware.
But it has an additional capability that makes it infinitely more insidious:
What’s the best antivirus program?
I don’t think I need to tell anyone reading this that digital security is a big issue at all levels: Personal, corporate, government, and international. On your PC, at the very least, an antivirus program is mandatory, although many people feel they don’t need one. Take my word for it, you do.
But there are many options, and for something like that you want the program that performs the best, detecting the most viruses and other malware compared to the competition. To offer some clarification, antivirus programs have a list of what are called ‘virus definitions,’ which is just what it sounds like: it provides characteristics of the viruses known to the antivirus package that it uses to determine if you have been infected (whenever you update your AV program, you’re downloading virus definition files).
