My experiences with firewalls and anti-virus programs have been nothing but dull. When running a program such as AVG, the only effect it makes on my life is how much it hogs system memory and slows your computer down. I recently discovered that a family friend of mine thought a daily 2 hour period of running an automatic AVG update + scan, which made his PC unusable for those 2 hours was normal! NO! NO! NO!
There is far too much hype surrounded by “viruses” and “trojans”. You are extremely unlikely to come across one so long as you do not obsessively download from shifty looking websites. Therefore I would advise to only use firewalls or Anti-Virus scanners at work (for legal reasons) or on a PC used by children.
Uninstalling these programs or at least removing them from your startup list will increase your computer’s speed by up to 50% easily! This is by far the main reason peoples PC’s are so slow.
If you would like a guide on how to remove Anti-virus programs from your startup and speed your PC’s speed up massively, check this out.
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