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Free Software As a New Way of Life on the Web |
The present world of Internet is a special environment, where many
things change their meaning and value like, for example, free software
that may be applied both in proprietary and open source use. Indeed,
today everyone may download free software any time and for any purposes
and without any obligations whatsoever. Of course, always everybody
looks for the best free software, and it does not matter how many other
pieces of the similar free software applications may be found around. Everybody also looks for best broadband deals, but that's another story.
A good example of best of the best may be evaluation of free software
antivirus applications that are in high demand due to very common risks
to suffer from malware applications of some sorts. Among the huge
variety of software applications available for PC platforms, antivirus
software takes the special place simply because the demands to this
kind of applications are quite different from those of any other end
user applications.
Indeed, free software for PC class of applications is the most popular
and that is the key reason why it is compromised most of all. It is so
because the level of users is very different and far not all of them
pay due attention to the security and protection of computers connected
to networks across the world. On the other hand, the widespread
software development technologies and global computer literacy promote
computer science knowledge, which may be used for not so descent
purposes as well.
A very common scenario of various personal system breaching may happen
while using, say, photo editing free software or any proprietary
application obtained illegally. In other words, threats are equally
dangerous irrespectively of software licensing and way of use: one
should be ready to react in any situation. |
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