Emailantivirus.info was created in 2002 because, quite honestly, I just felt sorry for someone.

It all started when my sister-in-law's personal computer at home was being infected by one form of virus or another at the rate of about once a month. That was almost tragic because of the amount of data that was being lost, time wasted and money being needlessly spent on computer repair. In most of the virus infection incidents, her hard disk had to be reformatted not to mention some of the other hardware components in her computer being damaged.

A lot of instances, the virus infection could have been prevented. At that time, her computer was running on Windows 98 and she never upgraded the browser to begin with. She was also using the Outlook Express program that came with Win 98 for her emails and never upgraded it. She or maybe someone else in her family was fond of carelessly forwarding "chain" emails, like the ones we described in one of our previous pages. Needless to say, all that junk mail that was being dumped on others came back to haunt her. She started receiving emails with attachments that were actually viruses. And using an unpatched Outlook Express on those kinds of email is like leaving the doors and windows of your house wide open. Sooner or later, something bad is bound to happen.

Some of her children were also fond of using internet relay chat and/or using some form of file sharing software like Kazaa or something like that. Using these kinds of programs are an invitation to disaster as well.

The clincher, as you would have guessed by now, is that she never installed any form of anti virus program on her computer.

Therefore, drawing from real-life experience motivated me to create a website of this nature. It is indeed amazing and perhaps sad to a certain extent that some people do not take computer protection seriously. Not that the world is going to end unless you secure your computer, but if something like what was just described happened to you, you would probably have saved yourself a lot of grief.

So this little website was written for all of you who probably just do not have the time or experience to devote to your computer but find that your computer is indispensable to your daily routine. We offer bits and pieces of information that you can apply to your computer set up and we have tried not to sound too technical about it. If you have comments or suggestions, feel free to contact us. Your input as to how this website can be improved is very much appreciated.

--The webmaster