Why You Need AntiVirus Software?

When your friend or colleague asks to use your computer because hers is playing up, ever wonder why her computer is misbehaving. Perhaps its because of a virus, that is about to be transferred to your computer. If you don't want to loose all of your work, and have to re-install windows and all of your software, you need antivirus software installed.

I only read emails from friends and colleagues

Whilst you make believe that they would never knowingly send you a virus, what if they become infected with a virus themselves. Many viruses use email to distribute themselves, and once they have infected someones PC, will email themselves to everyone in their address book. Getting and email from someone you know with a normal subject is enough to fool almost anyone into opening it and becoming infected themselves.
Due to bugs in some email software, you may not even have to open the email to become infected. Sometimes just selecting the email to delete it, is enough to become infected, as your email software may read or preview the message for you whenever you select it. If you receive an email you were not expecting, and especially if it has an attachment, be careful.

I don't have internet access

Not having internet access neither prevents you from becoming infected with a virus, as we've outlined above, nor does it prevent you from updating your antivirus software