| There are hundreds of different antivirus software | | | | your system, you should compare all others to these |
| available right now. There are some that are free while | | | | two before deciding as these 2 antivirus protection are |
| there are some that demands very high prices. Each | | | | industry standards which are a good balance of |
| of them have their individual features and while many | | | | protection and resource use. |
| of these features are quite similar, they way they use | | | | The reason why some antivirus tools tend to consume |
| your system resources could be quite different. Some | | | | a lot of system resources is that they were designed |
| could be very light on resource while some may hog | | | | for high end system with luxurious memory and |
| your entire system as they could be scanning for virus | | | | processing power. These could include virus protection |
| actively continuously. | | | | for workstations and may not be suitable for home |
| Light antivirus protection are not necessarily worse off. | | | | users. The most important advice to take is to always |
| They are many software which are efficiently written | | | | read the technical specifications before deciding on the |
| and use system resource sparingly. They do not | | | | software to install. You do not want to install a tool |
| constantly run processes and attempts to wake up | | | | that will not only hog all your system resource but also |
| only upon detection. These software are well written | | | | put your system on a standstill. Whatever it is, you |
| and examples are like AVG antivirus protection and | | | | should always backup all your important files before |
| Kaspesky. If you are the sort that like to test different | | | | you attempt installing any new software. |
| software packages before deciding on the one for | | | | |