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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, January 7, 2023
Topics covered in this issue…
• Reminder: Only use one antivirus app at a time
• Does your browser need to be updated? Find out now.
• Q&A: Is AdChoices malware?
• If you were here, you’d see the sun rise in the west and set in the east
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Today’s quick tech tip….
Reminder: Only use one antivirus app at a time
I’ve written several blog posts in the past explaining why you should only use one full-time antivirus app at a time, but I’m still receiving requests for help with removing viruses from PCs that have two or more such apps running on them.
As this post explains, two running antivirus apps will fight each other and neither of them will do an effective job at protecting your machine from viral infections.
If you have two or more of them running on your PC you really need to choose one and uninstall the others.
Of course you can (and should) run periodic scans with a good on-demand antivirus scanner to get a second opinion when your full-time antivirus fails to detect any nasties.
After all, no antivirus app is perfect and they’ll all miss something on occasion. A “second opinion” scan with one of the apps mentioned here just might catch what the regular scans miss.
In case you’re wondering, you can safely run an on-demand scanner at any time because those won’t conflict with your full-time antivirus app.
Just make sure you don’t run two or more full-time apps at once and you’ll be fine.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
Short answer: No. This post explains…
• Does your browser need to be updated? Find out now.
This post explains how.
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
If you were here, you’d see the sun rise in the west and set in the east
That would be a sight to see.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Chick-fil-A investigates reports of hacked customer accounts
• Qualcomm will build satellite service into Android phones this year
• Delta Airlines to offer free WiFi on most domestic flights by February
• Smartphones as personal spy tools? Why it’s happening more and more often
• HiSense says it’s bringing mini-LED TV to the masses
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