Best & Top 5 Antivirus in 2012 - Global Computer Technologies

In today’s world computer system’s and the data inside is prone to viruses and all kinds of malware. I think it’s safe to say that antivirus software is pretty much required in order to protect your computer. There’s literally a handful of completely free antivirus software from reliable and trusted brands that you can easily download for your Windows computer.

Here’s a list of the top 5 best free antivirus software for 2012 which are best for the protection of your computer system and your precious data provides by GLOBAL COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES :-

1) Norton internet security :

The Norton internet security belongs to company named as Symantec. This company claims that it stops viruses, spyware, and other online identity theft . Its other features include includes a personal firewall, email spam filtering , and phishing protection .The Norton internet security provides the industry’s most powerful protection . Four different layers of smart protection proactively detect and eliminate threats before they reach your computer. Identifies and stops new threats faster than other less sophisticated security software.

Some of the main features of Norton internet security are as follows :-

• Norton has Easy and user-friendly interface .

• It has Identity Theft Protection .

• One-click scanning

• Personalized AntiVirus scans

• Anti-Rootkit

• Anti-Spam

• Automatic Updates

• It provides Email Protection

• Firewall

• The software developers provides you Phone Support

2) Avast 7 :

Avast is an antivirus computer program developed by AVAST Software a.s. (formerly known as ALWIL Software a.s.), a company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic . Avast is being named among best anti viruses on the list. Avast comes with suitable security protection for your computer and you can always upgrade to Avast! 7 Pro Antivirus for extra protection and more features

The avast antivirus comes in two version for its users 1) Avast! Free Antivirus is the freeware version of the Avast! antivirus software available to Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users, while Avast! Pro Antivirus is offered to businesses and users who want additional features that can be useful for their business purposes. Priority updates are delivered automatically using PUSH update technology in Avast! Pro Antivirus. Avast! Pro Antivirus also has a command line scanner and a script blocker; however, as of version 6 of the Avast, the script blocker is available also to users of the free version .

The Avast! 7 Free Antivirus has a typical clean tabbed interface, making it very easy for its user to monitor the tools you can use to eliminate malware. Security protection from Avast! 7 Free Antivirus includes some features like Real-Time Shields, Firewall and advanced Browser Protection to help you to take control and remove malware infecting your PC. You can also choose to install Avast! Free in “compatible mode” to avoid conflicts with another antivirus program that is already being installed on your computer systems.

One of the unique feature of Avast 7 is The “AutoSandbox” tool which will automatically run any program labled as “suspicious” through the Avast! Sandbox to prevent serious damage to your computer and your precious data .

3) AVG Anti-Virus Free ( Edition 2012) :

AVG know as Anti-Virus Guard (AVG) is a family of anti-virus and Internet security software for the Microsoft Windows, Linux ,Mac OS X, and FreeBSD computing platforms, developed by AVG Technologies, a publicly traded Czech company formerly known as Grisoft .

AVG features most of the common functions available in modern anti-virus and Internet security programs, including periodic scans, scans of sent and received emails (including adding footers to the emails indicating this), the ability to “repair” some virus-infected files, and a quarantine area: “virus vault/chest” in which infected files are held.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012 is probably the most popular free antivirus software for Windows and is used by over 100 million of people around the world. AVG dominated the free antivirus software game by offering top-notch free protection and a powerful security scan to eliminate all types of malware infecting your computer. AVG has become trusted by millions of people by frequently updating their software and providing reliable security protection that really works for free to its users .

4) Microsoft Security Essentials :

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is an antivirus software (AV) is developed by Microsoft. Their software product provides protection against different types of malware such as computer viruses, spyware, rootkits and Trojan horses. It runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not on Windows 8, which has a built-in AV component. Microsoft Security Essentials is a completely free security suite that offers free “real-time” protection for Windows computer systems . Anytime Microsoft Security Essentials detects a malware or any other threat, it will notify you via a popup on the taskbar with all information on the threat. You can then choose to remove or ignore o the threat, giving you full control over any malicious threats as soon as they enter your system.

5) Bit defender Antivirus Plus 2012 :

Bit defender is an antivirus software suite developed by Romania-based software company Softwin. Bit defender was launched in November 2001. The Bit defender internet security 2012 makes a convincing pitch as an easy Windows security option. It has enormous selection of features , but the best one you will never see another security notification again unless you get infected . The Bit defender’s product range includes antivirus products for home users and businesses. Home editions support Microsoft Windows, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and Mac OS X ; business editions support Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. The current version of the Home/Home Office security suite includes antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, e-mail spam filtering, backup, tune-up and parental control components. A free basic online scan is offered via the Bit defender website.

The Bit defender products feature antivirus and antispyware, personal firewall, privacy control, user control and backup for corporate and home users. PC Tune up and Performance Optimizer are available in the Total Security Suite . The Bit defender total security offers all the usual components , plus online back up with 2 GB of the storage , parental controls , file encryption , identity protection and even a duplicate file finder. There’s a more basic internet security package too , but this fully loaded edition costs no more than many competing suites. Bit defender provides one click scanning to the user as well as personalized anti virus scans . the Bit defender also provides Email support.

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OBAMA WINS ROMNEY

OBAMA WINS ROMNEY 

What ought to pain Republicans most about Barack Obama’s victory is that 2012 was entirely winnable for them. In European elections over the past few years, voters have thrown out leaders who were in charge during the worst of the financial crisis, whether those leaders deserved the blame or not. Economic indicators in the United States, where an unemployment rate of 8 percent is highly correlated with defeat for the incumbent party, pointed in the same direction. Obama himself had proven a disappointment to many of his former supporters, going from a beloved symbol of generational and social change in 2008 to a detached and remote figure, with limited ability to touch an emotional chord in the electorate.

That Mitt Romney lost nonetheless is in part a tribute to his own weaknesses as a candidate. The Obama campaign put Romney on the defensive early about his work at Bain Capital, and left him there. The Republican nominee made any number of horrendous gaffes. He ran a disastrous GOP convention. He never found a way to talk about himself or his agenda in a way that middle class voters could relate to.

But even a clumsy candidate might have beaten Obama if not for a simple factor that could not be overcome: the GOP’s growing extremism. The Republican strategy of making the election a referendum on the president’s handling of the economy was perfectly sound. The problem was that the Republican Party couldn’t pass the credibility test itself. For many voters disenchanted with Obama, it still was not safe to vote for his opponent.

This failure began with the spectacle of the extended primary season, which was dominated by candidates with views far outside the political mainstream. Rick Santorum rejected the separation of church and state. Newt Gingrich challenged the notion of judicial supremacy. Michele Bachmann claimed the government had been infiltrated by radical Muslims. Donald Trump refused to recognize the validity of Obama’s birth certificate. Rick Perry wanted to take down more parts of the federal government than he could successfully name. In the debates, the country saw the GOP talking to itself and sounding like a bizarre fringe party, not a responsible governing one.

Romney is not a right-wing extremist. To win the nomination, though, he had to feign being one, recasting himself as “severely conservative” and eschewing the reasonableness that made him a successful, moderate governor of the country’s most liberal state. He had to pass muster with his party’s right-wing base on taxes, immigration, climate change, abortion, and gay rights. Many of his statements on these issues were patently insincere, but that was hardly reassuring. Romney’s very insincerity and flexibility made it improbable that he would stand up to the GOP’s hyper-partisan congressional wing once elected any more than he had during the primaries.

Romney’s pandering to the base made it possible for the Obama campaign to portray him as a right-wing radical from the start of the campaign. Fear that he didn’t have the base locked down kept Romney from moving smoothly to the center once he had secured the nomination. It further encouraged his choice of Paul Ryan, a popular figure with the Tea Party. And when Romney tried, much too late, to move closer to the center, Republican Senate candidates, like Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana, kept popping up with disgusting reminders of the GOP’s retrograde views on gender issues. For women, Latinos, and young voters tempted to abandon Obama, the old Romney might have been a plausible alternative. The new Romney, fettered by a feverish GOP, was too risky a choice.  According to exit poll results, Romney won men as expected, but lost among women by 11 points—too large a gender gap to be overcome.

Demographic change and better economic circumstances stand to make the Republican road back to the White House an even steeper climb in future years. Simply put, the party has to present a more conciliatory and reasonable face to sell itself to swing voters. To do that, it must elevate its own moderate voices, cut loose its theocrats, and liberate itself from the domination of Tea Party know-nothings. 

So let the season of Republican recriminations begin. The GOP now faces the challenge of self-examination and internal reform that Democrats began to undertake after losing twice to Ronald Reagan. It desperately needs the kind of centrist reform movement that was led on the other side by the Democratic Leadership Council, which paved the way for the election of a centrist Democrat named Bill Clinton. Without that sort of renewal movement, the 2012 election may come to be seen less as a fluke than a harbinger.

India is not for Sale

At a time when inflation is high, when the relentlessly increasing prices of food items like rice, wheat, sugar, edible oils, pulses, vegetables, are reflected in a high food inflation rate of 17 per cent, the Government of India has dealt a cruel blow to the people by raising the prices of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene which will further push up prices of essential commodities and have an all round cascading impact on inflation rates. No Government with even an iota of sensitivity for the suffering of the people because of price rise can take such an anti- people step. The deregulation of prices means leaving the people to the mercy of a market controlled by big MNCs and domestic corporate. 

The reasons being given by the Government for this price hike are totally wrong and misleading. The Prime Minister has justified it saying it is in the interests of the country. The country of the 77 per cent who do not have more than 20 rupees to spend each day or the country of the super rich? He said that these reforms should  have been done even earlier. This is an admission that it is only because of the weak opposition of the ruling parties on price of petroleum products. They are happy to indulge in dramas of abstaining from attending the cabinet meeting! This is a strange way of protesting—staying away instead of opposing and fighting! The truth is that these parties are also agreeable to this anti-people policy. 

The editor of the Congress magazine has said that only Sonia Gandhi can stop this wrong policy. But even a child knows  that the Prime Minister would not be able to take such a decision without her approval. The entire Congress party and its top leadership is responsible for this – they talk of the "aam aadmi" and follow policies for the "khas aadmi". 

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India has given an advertisement in the News Papers soliciting support of the people for the price hike of Petrol, Diesel, LPG and Kerosene.  It is a document of deceit and deception  published with public money to befool the people.  It gives the various so-called reasons for the price hike.

International prices

The Government says that 80 per cent of the country’s requirement for petrol products is met by imports. Since prices change in the international market this makes a direct impact on India leading to the reason to hike prices. In other words, the price hike is due to international price rises. 

How much has the increase in international prices been? Since May 2010 the international price has increased by just 70 paisa per litre of crude oil. In May 2010, international crude price was 70 dollar per barrel i.e. Rs. 21.43 per liter (1 dollar = Rs.49). Today it is 77 dollar per barrel which means Rs. 22.13 per liter (1dollar = Rs.46.22).  One barrel roughly is 160 litres. So the international crude price has risen by 70 paisa per litre.  But the Government has raised the prices many times more!  In the last six months, the price hike by Government is of Rs. 6.44 per litre on petrol, Rs.4.55 per liter on diesel within last four months, and Rs.3 per liter on Kerosene and Rs 35 on Domestic LPG now. Secondly, in the last three months there has been no increase at all in the international prices, so why  this hike now? Obviously the international price has nothing to do with the price hike of petroleum products since the last budget in February 2010.   

The Government advertisement  says India imports petroleum products. India imports crude oil,  it does not import petroleum products, Crude oil is refined in the refineries in India to produce petroleum products like petrol, diesel cooking gas, kerosene etc. before marketing. India imports 75 to 80 per cent of its crude oil requirements. However India is more than self sufficient in oil refining and produces more petroleum  products than the domestic requirements.  In the year  2009 – 2010 (April-December) it has exported 28 million tonnes petroleum products against an import of 10 million tonnes.  

“The government has acted in the larger national interest of saving PSU oil companies, which are Navaratnas and Maharatnas, from bankruptcy and safeguarding consumer interests.” Is it so?  Are the oil companies on the verge of bankruptcy? We are not Fools nor are you either !(IOC posted net profit of Rs. 2,950 crore on an unprecedented turnover  of Rs. 2,85,337)

In  1976 Indira Gandhi nationalised all the big foreign companies like Burma Shell, Caltex, Esso which were looting India. Before nationalization, these foreign companies used to charge Indian consumers at the international price of petroleum products making huge profits. This was known as  import parity pricing system. Everyone knows that it is the big multi-national oil companies and cartels that together control the world’s oil markets and manipulate prices to increase their profits. In addition, the multi-national financial companies further push up prices through massive 

speculation. In 1976 import pricing system was stopped. The then Government set in place a mechanism called the Administrative Pricing Mechanism (APM). The effort was to increase the domestic refining capacity and to end dependence on imports of petroleum products from foreign companies. As per APM instead of the international price of petroleum products being the basis, the actual cost of crude and refining cost of crude were assessed and a reasonable profit margin was ensured to the companies before fixing the price of products.  

It is an insult to self reliance  achieved in the petroleum sector, when the government advertisement tries to compare the prices of LPG and Kerosene selectively with other countries like Nepal and Bangladesh.  Instead it should compare the taxing pattern of petrol and diesel with some of the developing countries.

The Ministry has forgotten its arithmetic. The fact is that the Government is earning huge amounts by putting burdens on the people. During 2009-2010 the contribution to Central Government. Exchequer by the Petroleum Sector  in the form of taxes, duties, dividend etc. is more than Rs. 90,000 crore. During the year 2010-2011, after the increase in taxes, the contribution  is going to be more than Rs. 1,20,000 crore. Who is subsidizing whom?  And then where is this figure  of Rs. 53,000 core in the budget? Where from this figure has been  invented? Is it also a case of globalised arithmetic like under  recovery which does not find a place in budget or balance sheet? 

“A free-market regime will create competition between the public and private sectors.  This will improve service and could also lead to a price war.”   

These are the naked truths behind the lies of the Government! Bhrashtamev Jayate !