How to Make Sure That Your Antivirus is Working Well
If you have installed antivirus software in your computer system, it doesn’t that now antivirus has the sole liability to protect your PC from all sought of unknown threats. Antivirus Software is installed in PC to protect it from viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, malwares and other internet threats. But for complete protection of computer from unknown threats there is something to be done by the user as well.
There are some recommendations which user should make sure while using any antivirus software which will make sure that AV works to its optimum capability and provides extremely advanced protection against any unknown viruses.
- Regularly Update Antivirus Software
Antivirus Software protects unknown threats by identifying the virus definition and removing the same from PC to make it virus protected. Virus Definition Updates are necessary for any antivirus software as only the updates makes antivirus capable of detecting new virus threats and removing the same from your computer system. Antivirus software with no updates is just useless as it won’t be able to protect PC from latest unknown threats.
Protegent is our antivirus software product which automatically downloads latest updates which makes it capable of providing extremely advanced protection against latest strains of threats. Some AV software doesn’t provide feature of automatic updates which needs user intervention of manually updating the AV at regular interval of time. Some free antivirus software also requires users to manually update the software to keep it up-to-date.
- Check For Antivirus Upgrades
Antivirus Software is developed by companies and they continuously work to add new/advanced features to their AV so that it can protect the computer system with advancement in the technology and unknown threats. AV developer provides upgrade of their software on specific interval of time and allows user to download the upgrade & install the same in computer system. We recommend that user should regularly check for AV upgrades and install any new upgrade if available.
- External Drive Scan
We recommend that user should always first scan any external drive connected to PC and allow AV software to remove any unknown threats (if any) from it before performing any operations on it.
Protegent enables with advanced feature of automatic scanning of external device when connected to the computer system. This feature doesn’t need any input from the user and AV starting scanning the external drive as it is recognized by computer and display the scan result to the user. This feature doesn’t allow any unknown viruses from external drive to enter your computer system.
- Never Install Two Antivirus Software in One System
If you want that you computer system is always protected from viruses, then we recommend that there should never be two AV installed in a computers system. Keeping two antivirus software in one computer is never a good option as there will always be a conflict between the two. Both AV will detect data files of each other as virus threats and will create a hazard instead of providing protection from viruses, spyware and other internet threats in your computer.
That’s it in the discussion on how an AV user can help Antivirus Software in working well. We do recommend that all AV users should implement these suggestions for virus free computer.
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