CyberFlair's new version can now also monitor the health of your computer. It will bring to your attention possible security issues and offer advice and tools to help fix them.
CyberFlair Healthy Hints can check that you have an antivirus product active and up-to-date. It will also check for multiple such products that could be slowing down your computer.
An antivirus program is a must have and can prevent your computer from being infected and can also attempt to clean-up an already infected computer of malicious software.
Such infections are computer programs that when active on a computer can do anything it likes, such as:
Antivirus software typically protect you by being a virtual gatekeeper between your computer and the outside world, checking any new data or software for possible infections.
Detection is mainly based on looking for a match against a list of known viruses that the antivirus program will automatically and periodically often download updates to.
These are typically used to protect your computer in the following ways: