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Friday, August 2, 2013

Look Out For These Features, Before Choosing Your Antivirus Software


Antivirus software is not just a program, but way beyond than that! Usually, users download, install this application and then, forget about it. However, this software silently sits in your system. It prevents every threat that is trying to invade your system, scans and treats the virus or malware that is already affecting your system.
Antivirus software is one of the major needs of your system, which is why you need to choose your antivirus software wisely. Here are the best features to look out for before choosing your antivirus software:


On-Access scanning
This is the kind of scanning, for viruses, which goes on every time you access a file. Also, when a file is downloaded, antivirus software will perform the on-access scanning to check for virus.
Heuristic scanning
Heuristic scanning happens when the application comes across a new kind of virus. Whenever, a new virus is found, antivirus software will run a thorough scan of your computer, to find whether the system has been affected by this new virus.
Schedule scanning
A routine scan will definitely, slow down your system. It becomes yet worse, when you’re working on the system. To avoid this problem, you can set your antivirus for scheduled scanning. So, this schedule scan will run at the time, when you want it to without any disturbance.
On-demand scanning
On-demand scanning is the scanning that you can set to run, anytime you want to. If you see your system behaving weird, you can go for an ‘on-demand’ scanning to know if there is any virus attack. This scan will not affect your scheduled scan.
E-mail scanning
E-mail could be a potential source of flooding your system with viruses. Good antivirus software will scan your e-mail attachments, before downloading any. It will scan all your mail accounts, such as MSN, Yahoo Mail, Gmail’s and other webmail accounts.
Instant messaging scan
Instant messages could be again, a serious source of viruses in your system. Antivirus software will take care of the viruses that try to flow into the system via instant messaging, by blocking them from entering into the system.
Finally, ‘Updates’ is an important factor to consider in case of any software. It becomes very important, when it is antivirus software because developers come up with frequent virus threats. To fight against those viruses, it is needed that you have up-to-date antivirus software. Antivirus software may get your system slower, but it is crucial to have antivirus software in your system.
Author Bio: This post is written by Jack. Need immediate Remote tech support here, TechHelpApps is an online community that provides computer technical support for Windows. For computer technical help, contact technical experts who can diagnose the problem and provide the relevant solution.

1 comment:

  1. I always do scan to tuneup my PC back in the time that im still using Windows 7 i do use Avast, Norton but when the time i got new PC and install Windows 10 i have not use another Antivirus but only the Windows Defender cause it works perfect and wont affect the performance of my device.

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