There's a famous saying, "Two heads are better than one". But what's better than two heads? Three. There are many of those who claim the best antivirus program out there. The most popular antivirus programs out there are maintained and kept updated by companies that are already there for a very long time. However, studies made recently show that there is a considerable decrease in the effectiveness of most antivirus softwares especially the most popular ones. Detection rates of new viruses and other malicious programs dropped in the previous years. Why is this? This is because the modern virus is developed by professional authors who tested their programs with the major antivirus softwares before releasing them out to the internet. They have been successful and continue to fulfill these activities through the financial support of some organizations.
With the multitude of harmful and dangerous programs out there, how do you completely protect your PC? The best solution is to expand your PC's capabilities to detect most of these viruses by having a broader library of known viruses and malwares, and known behavioral patterns. Therefore, two or more antivirus programs running in your PC is better, thus the saying, " Two heads are better than one". However, with most popular antivirus programs, only one of them can be installed in your PC at a time. Running more than one of them can lead to serious performance issues.
To get a complete PC protection, the best way is to combine two or more less popular softwares, each having more control with a certain type or group of viruses and malwares. One antivirus could have more ability of detecting new viruses and have wide library of known viruses, one capable of identifying the most stealthy spywares, and the other detecting every other malwares intruding into your PC. These will also significantly expand your library of viruses and malwares as these antivirus programs identifies viruses and malwares at different times. They are also capable of detecting new viruses as new viruses are more focused to resist against more popular antivirus programs. How do you select these antivirus programs? These programs are named after which they are specialized with. You could choose one with a name containing Antivirus, one with Anti-malware, and the other with the name Antispyware. There is a wide choice of programs available in the internet to choose from. However, you should also take caution in selecting an antivirus program for some malwares disguise themselves as an antivirus waiting to show up and attack once intruded into your PC.
