Choosing an Antivirus – Look for Reliable Protection

There are so many options on the market for an antivirus or security solution that you may not know which to choose. A good security product is not just about the antivirus protection but also about firewall protection, protection against cybercrime when browsing the internet, protection against ransomware, VPN protection against third-party monitoring and censorship, and so on. Reliability is one of the most important criteria for choosing the best antivirus solution. A reliable security product should be able to:

• Protect without causing conflicts with other programs installed on your computer – For instance, a good security suite should check whether similar security programs are already found on your system when you install a program on your computer. It should first ask you to remove the conflicting software, before installing itself.
• Protect its processes from unwanted termination – By design, a powerful malware takes advantage of the weak spots of an antivirus. While some malware might try to kill the antivirus solution that runs on your system and take control of the system, a reliable security solution should always protect its processes from unwanted termination.
• Provide up to date protection – An antivirus solution that uses old and outdated malware definitions is a weak product and hence not something you should opt for. Threats are an ever- evolving occurrence; they never stop, so antiviruses must do that too. A good antivirus is a product that regularly updates itself, not just once in a while but several times a day.
• Automate security scans – A reliable security solution should offer a means to automate antimalware scans which means that a security suite must let you schedule antivirus scans. What’s better is if a security product comes out of the box with regularly scheduled scans already activated or if it runs antivirus scans when your computer is idle and is not doing anything anyway.

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