{"id":296,"date":"2012-02-16T19:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2012-02-16T19:22:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:22:04","slug":"anti-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/anti-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all need to keep our computers protected with anti-virus and anti-malware software.\u00a0 Many of us grew up on Norton anti-virus, or MacAfee\u2019s anti-virus software.\u00a0 Still most new computers arrive with trial software preloaded from one or the other of these manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Free anti-virus has come a long way.\u00a0 Microsoft offers Microsoft Security Elements \u2013 no charge;\u00a0 AVG is well respected, and there are more.\u00a0 This is a comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/newsletter\/is-your-free-av-tool-a-resource-pig\/\" target=\"_blank\">resource <\/a>of free anti-viruses and performance test results for each. (Scroll mid way down\u00a0for the article.)\u00a0 It\u2019ll help you make the right choice for your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all need to keep our computers protected with anti-virus and anti-malware software.\u00a0 Many of us grew up on Norton anti-virus, or MacAfee\u2019s anti-virus software.\u00a0 Still most new computers arrive with trial software preloaded from one or the other of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/anti-virus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,163,162],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallbusinesswebsite","tag-anti-virus","tag-anti-virus-performance-results","tag-free-anti-virus-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}