Another Day With My PC

Many anti spyware and antivirus programs promise ease of use and impeccable efficiency. Not surprisingly, many live up to that guarantee. Indeed, most security programs take care of everything, leaving the user virtually useless in the process.

This doesn’t mean that you should just always sit back and leave everything to the application. There are times when anti malware programs overreacts and eliminates files which are actually harmless, or worse, critical or important to some of your tasks.

Take, for instance, the way some antivirus treat IRC programs. McAfee’s Virus Scan has mistakenly identified mIRC as a potentially harmful program. While IRC software could introduce harmful programs to your system, it’s not a virus-hoarding application per se. As with any other programs, such as e-mail clients, it may serve as a portal for malware if used carelessly.

Before concurring with the recommendations made by your antivirus or anti spyware programs, make sure that you’ve thoroughly reviewed the report, especially if the remedy that is being suggested involves deleting the suspected files.

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