What can be “stolen”:
– passwords from social networks;
– password from a hobby site (and use it at their discretion);
– email client data (and possibly send virus-containing “letters of happiness” to your friends and relatives, boss or colleagues on your behalf).
Everything, down to personal photos from archives, needs protection from any actions of intruders. And don’t think that you have nothing valuable – something will surely be found, and having obtained databases from thousands and tens of thousands of computers, hackers can make good money. Don’t let them make money off you!
Now a decent licensed antivirus can be purchased for just 50-60 rubles per month – this amount is incomparable to any other expenses – on transport, food, even electricity bills. All of this costs more than installing an antivirus, and the high quality maintained by many software manufacturers allows you not to worry that “the computer will ask you to enter an SMS again.”
Solving problems in advance in all areas is more profitable than dealing with difficulties after they occur. And a promptly updated antivirus will allow you to get a “vaccine” against a trendy virus circulating on the Net before the “infection” itself. So both the cost and the complexity of installing licensed software are essentially not a sufficient argument “against” this paid software.
The classic “excuse #32” is the belief that antivirus software still won’t protect against 100% of threats. Alas, such is the reality – despite a huge staff of programmers constantly updating virus databases, no antivirus gives a one hundred percent guarantee of “non-penetration.” After all, there are self-written and quite “local” viruses that are not widespread on the Internet. However, mechanisms such as detection using heuristic methods and others (up to constant monitoring of file changes) of malware allow increasing protection of personal life and user data to the maximum technically possible level.
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