{"id":432,"date":"2017-02-23T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.protegent360.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2023-03-02T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:36:34","slug":"things-to-remember-afterbefore-antivirus-is-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protegent360.com\/blog\/things-to-remember-afterbefore-antivirus-is-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to Remember \u2013 After\/Before Antivirus is Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many things which need to be remembered after\/before you install any antivirus software in your computer system. Antivirus is data security software which provides extreme protection against viruses, spywares, malwares and other unknown threats.<\/p>\n

Antivirus software<\/a> is essential for every PC which provides protection from unknown security threats which might be approaching your computer system from external ports, pen drives, CD\/DVD and through internet which is the major source of viruses in computers.<\/p>\n

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Users need to remember certain things before installing any antivirus software in your computer:<\/p>\n

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  1. Before installing any AV software, user should make sure that there should not be any preinstalled data security product in the computer. If so, then user should first uninstall that particular software which all its files saved in system. There is a reason behind doing this. If you don\u2019t remove the AV installed in your system before installing the new AV then both the AV will detect files of each other as viruses. So, it\u2019s always necessary to uninstall preinstalled AV software before installing the new one.<\/li>\n
  2. System requirements of the AV software should be verified before installing the same in your computer. AV software might not work efficiently if computer system doesn\u2019t satisfy the hardware requirements of AV.<\/li>\n
  3. User should choose the AV version namely AV Software, Internet Security & Total Security Antivirus<\/a> depending upon the need of the user. Antivirus software provides protection from spyware, malware and other unknown threats. Internet Security provides protection from advance viruses, spywares and other unknown internet threats. Whereas Total Security provides extremely advanced protection against online threats.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Users need to remember certain things after installing any antivirus software in your computer:<\/p>\n

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    1. After the user successfully installs AV software in computer system, the first thing which should be done is to restart the system which will start all the services of the antivirus software installed in the system.<\/li>\n
    2. After restarting the system, the user should secondly update the antivirus software by going to the update section & click on Update Now<\/strong>. This will update the virus definitions in the database which will help antivirus to scan the latest trends of unknown threats in an efficient and effective manner.<\/li>\n
    3. After updating the antivirus, the next thing is to check for upgrades for the antivirus software installed in the computer system. By upgrading the software, much new functionality are added to the software which might not be present at the time of installation.<\/li>\n
    4. After all this it is recommended to have a full system scan before proceeding to any other tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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