Why purchase software for Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection?

Anti-Virus software can prevent your business suffering from reduced productivity and missed business opportunities resulting from a computer virus or spyware.

Spyware can not only report on your browsing and purchasing habits on the internet but it can also slow down your PC or make it unstable and prone to crashing just when you need it most.

Computer viruses can result in the loss of important documents stored on the affected computer as well as endangering any other unprotected computers on any networks it is connected too.

Will Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software make my computer much slower?

Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software can make file and network access a little slower, but a virus or spyware infection is likely to have a much greater impact on the performance of a computer. On modern computers with correctly configured Anti-Virus software the effect on performance is normally negligible.

Selecting a good integrated Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware solution such as Avast! rather than running separate Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software is also a good way to minimise the performance impact.