Regarding any Microsoft’s Windows OS, a good antivirus program is a key point when you are surfing the Internet. It seems everyone has his own favorite solution to virus with personal feature, but in terms of security experts, there are universal principles for Windows OS anti-virus:
1. Install Antivirus before Connecting the Internet
Do install anti-virus software in any PC of Microsoft’s Windows OS before connecting the Internet, since the speed of malware infecting the computer is faster than that of downloading anti-virus program. If you don’t realize this and take for granted that you needn’t worry about virus infecting your PC before you open the browser to visit any website, you are playing Russian Roulette on the PC security.
2. Choose the Antivirus Containing Real-time Scan Tool
To protect your PC from being infected with viruses or worms, you need a real-time auto-scan tool to ensure you can detect the presence of virus in daily work and prevent virus spreading. Real-time scanning may bring more pressure to the system performance so we often close it, but do make careful consideration. In fact, it’s inadvisable to close the real-time scanning to get extra performance improvement when you are browsing webpage and sending and receiving email.
3. Full Scan the System Regularly
Relying on only real-time scan is far from enough; you also need to ensure full scanning the system regularly. If possible, you should have your computer full scanned automatically everyday, since real-time scan can only effectively protect the system from being infected during connecting and even so, it’s probable that some viruses are not included in the characteristic codebase of your antivirus program and thus can not be detected.. Therefore, full scanning the system regularly is necessary.
4. Don’t Use Two Antivirus Programs at the Same Time
It will bring nothing but troubles using two antivirus programs at the same time, because two antivirus programs running together in the system will cause such problems as their real-time scan tools may conflict in control rights thus impairing the system performance and the virus signature file of the antivirus program may be handled as actual virus by the other one. In a word, to have two incompatible antivirus programs run in your PC may lead to many unexpected situations.
In addition, you can refer to another article of mine by clicking here to find some kind of antivirus recommended and some tips to make your PC run smoothly.
