The need for virus protection on your PC is pretty evident these days and most people do not even question its necessity or investment. Questions do arise, however, if you are considering the purchase of a new PC and how its virus security should be provided for - especially if the system under consideration comes with a virus protection system preinstalled. If you are getting a new PC and it comes with virus protection already installed you may be well advised to use it as is, compared to uninstalling it and running something else. If we make the assumption that most good packages provide similar levels of security, what other considerations are there - both from an investment and an operational perspective?
Strictly speaking, a new PC with virus protection preinstalled is certainly a better investment than the same PC without it. Nonetheless there are often other considerations. As stated, the investment in standalone virus protection is waived assuming the acquisition of a PC with it preinstalled. Nonetheless, there are other operational considerations that should be made. If you are adding this new PC into an existing PC environment in a small business, for example, and you already have several other PC’s running in that environment, you clearly need to review the overall status of virus protection. This is especially true assuming that the other PCs are locally networked. Reviewing your overall environment clearly means looking at what virus protection software is already running on the other systems. If your existing software configuration provided - at purchase - for its installation on more than one system then the question of compatibility makes the decision even more interesting. If there were provisions for multi-system usage - and assuming the number of allowed, networked installations has not been reached then you have another decision to make. Is it a better investment to save your purchased expansion for later or use it on the new system and end up with a more homogeneous environment?
Lastly, there is just the basic operating environment consideration of a homogeneous setup after the addition of the new PC. If McAfee is running four PCs and the purchase allows it on five, then you might consider installing McAfee on your new system. In that manner, you would have a four-system, networked group of PCs with the same operating configuration - and the same virus protection software. This, from a convenience standpoint can be worth it - investment aside.
Your other, related requirement is to provide for the maintenance of your windows registry. Good registry software that scans and updates codes, keys and does other registry fix functions will accomplish the Registry Repair that needs to be regularly done.
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Author Resource:-> James Roberts is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to use registry software and best ways to fix registry that work fast!
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