If there is one question I get almost every day it is related to anti-virus programs. Today, things are so much different then they were just a few years ago. Virus infections and fake alerts have been around since the beginning of time but the main difference is that they have become more sophisticated. It appears it is a constant battle between the anti-virus venders and the hackers that write the virus programs. After all, a virus is simply a program that runs on your computer. It just does things that are very undesirable and can also steal personal information as well.