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Antivirus – Is it what you think it really is?

Issued in public interest: The contents of this post are completely different from what you will read. Thus, read it only if you want to, the creator takes no responsibility whatsoever if you get confused or find it difficult to know what’s going on. In short, go ahead on your own risk. And if you are clever, you’ll know what it actually means!!!

Almost everyone has an Antivirus in their system. You ask them the reason for it, they’ll say that they need help and protection from potentially dangerous and unknown sources, and help you out when you get into trouble. They help in stabilizing the system and prevent it from crashing or malfunctioning. But I ask this: Do we really need an Antivirus? Can we rely on them? Can’t we do without them? I’ve observed that in most of the cases, they either tend to slow down the system as a whole, or lower the efficiency. Should we pay this cost for merely protecting ourselves from threats, when we can take preventive actions for the same? Is it really a necessity? Or we keep it just because everyone does? Perhaps because we don’t want to be left out. Well, see it from an entirely different angle today.

Lohe ko Loha kaat-ta hai, virus ko bhi virus hi kaat-ta hai. And a big one at that. It is a much bigger virus in itself, which can tackle other viruses and threats with the blink of an eye. Maybe it’s a Lice, which thrives on you, feeds on you, and all the time, it pretends to be your friend. Or maybe it’s a Dog. You give it space and all the love and trust that it needs, thinking that its your best friend, only to find that quite often it ends up biting the hand that fed it. It is very clever. Instead of repairing, it just gives you an option of deleting those files which someday, may prove useful for your system. And slowly and slowly, it takes away from you all the back-up you needed. It takes control over you. You cannot delete it from the system, it simply overpowers all processes and makes you do things its own way. And then you realize that you have become a slave, but its too late to press F1. You become vulnerable. Any rash step may lose all the valuable data, much of which may not be recoverable. So friends, think ten million times when you decide to get an Antivirus for your system, you may spell your own doom for yourself.
Enjoy…

posted by Hardeep @ 5:31 AM