Viruses And The Relation To Your Computer's Decrease In Performance

Posted by Cappadonna on Saturday, September 11, 2010

By Terrance May

The internet has become such a common tool that most people use on a regular basis but one thing that is always overlooked about the internet is the safety of your computer. There are many different harmful things out there on the internet that can harm your computer like malware or spyware but the purposes of this article we are going to talk about viruses and why they slow down your computer. A virus is just a piece of software that has been written to harm a computer.

This will just eat up your computers resources which in the long run will slow down your computer. Now what most people do when their computer starts to slow down is they will go out and buy a registry cleaner which will make your computer a bit faster, but it will not have nearly as much leverage as if you were to simply get rid of all of the malicious software that is on your computer.

So if the solution isn't to get a registry cleaner, what is it? Well there are many different program that you can download to get rid of things like malware and spyware but for the purposes of this article we are going to focus on protecting and removing viruses from your computer. To do this I am going to recommend 2 different anti-virus software's to you, the first you can either use the free version or pay for a more "advanced" version and the second which only comes in a paid version.

The very first proram that I use is called AVG Anti-Virus. With this piece of software you can get a free version and a paid version. If you dont have enough money for the paid version of the software, dont worry, just use the free one - it works jsut find. I have actually used the free one for a few years now and I personally think that it works just as good as most paid ones. But obviously, the paid version of this software has a few more features on it that you can use. Now, when you decided to use AVG as your main anti-virus program, what you are going to need to do is tune it to make your computer faster. There are many different ways to "tune" the program to do this, but for the most part I am going to focus on just one trick in this article, preventing it from performing a scan as soon as you turn on your computer. What this means is that you are going to have to manually tell it to perform scan when it is convenient for you. To do this, just click on the "Computer Scanner", click on the Manage Scheduled Scans and then select "Edit Scan Schedule". Now all you have to do to finish off is to just uncheck the box that says "Enable this task"

The second anti-virus program that I highly recommend is called ESET Nod 32 Anti-Virus. This is one htat you are going to have to pay for but you do get a lot more protection, it is easy to use and you do not have to configure it at all - it just runs smoothly and it won't slow your computer down. I highly recommend this anti-virus to anyone.

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