Antivirus on Your Laptop Mac Do You Need It and Is It Any Good Lets Find Out!

0:00 Your music, your program, your love life and your Facebook

Alright guys, for most DJs the laptop is possibly the most important part of your kit because it houses all the information you need. Your music, your program, your love life and your Facebook. But wouldn't it be a nightmare if all of a sudden you got a virus on there and it collapsed and said goodbye and you ended up having to throw it away and buy another one? I have another one. I'm not going to give you the make, but what I will say is that I use a very basic Windows Defender on there. Now, I have not downloaded any virus protection. At all on my other laptop. Now that laptop is pretty much falling apart. The key, some of the keys are missing, some of the USB ports don't work, the 6 and 5 stick and a lot of people will confirm that because on the odd occasion I have had to apologise because instead of sending 5 I've said 55 or I've sent a 0 instead of 50. Now right that's the downside but that's mechanical in a way so

1:46 There are guards looking after that bank 24-7

Let me give you an analogy here, and this is what I truly believe, and you tell me if you believe this or not. Let's imagine someone opens a brand new bank in the local town, and they employ lots of people to fit anti-theft devices around that bank. So it's got the best you can imagine. Also, the doors to the bank are 20 foot thick. There are guards looking after that bank 24-7. In other words, it's like bloody Fort Knox. Now, when you do that, you're going to attract a lot of people who want to know what's inside it because if you think about it, if you've got a load of security around that bank, there's got to be something important inside the bank so people are more likely to want to look inside the bank and see what's there. On the other hand...

2:44 Do you honestly think people would bother to look inside that house?

Next door to this bank is a clapped out shack with a rusty old door and just a bolt. The windows are black, the garden's messy and it just looks a complete waste land. Right, but in that room, in that building, there's a thousand pounds just sitting on the settee, on the sofa, on the seat, in cash. There it is. Now, do you honestly think people would bother to look inside that house? They're more inclined to look at the bank. Now let's take that analogy onto your laptop. There are people out there, there is metadata out there that will just get people to look at your laptop if you've got all the sort of software known to man that is defending, is protecting your laptop. So people will more likely want to see what you're trying to hide instead of what you're not trying to hide really. Because if you're not trying to hide anything, there can't be anything important on there. Can there really? Or can there? So think about it. And this is factual. I mean, all right, touch wood.

My laptop isn't going to die tomorrow, but I have never had any viruses on there. I've never had any big issues or problems where all of a sudden it stopped working because someone's thrown a Trojan whatever in there. It's still working fine, except for the few missing keys. That is it, alright? So, in a nutshell, before you download any form of antivirus, have a think, alright? Because also, what happens, that antivirus is always working in the background so it's taking up a little bit of your CPU as well. Now this is just my take on it. What is yours? Post a comment. Do you have a laptop? Do you have multi-levels of antivirus and are you finding problems? Or, like me, have you got a laptop that's just got bugger all on it? Practice. And by the way, there's nothing exciting on it. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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