How to Select the Best Antivirus and Methods

How to Select the Best Antivirus and method of development of information technology is very rapid at this time to encourage significant levels of viral growth. Many viruses that roam make computer users uncomfortable. Moreover, anti-virus system is not one hundred percent ableprotect computer ( this is writtenfrom an observer Antivirus , Dawn Novriawanwho analyzed the results of tests antivirus by Av - Comparatives ).

A. What antivirus?
Before choosing antivirus is good that we know little about the antivirus. Antivirus software is befungsi to detect, remove and quarantine viruses from computer systems. Also called Virus Protection Software. This application can determine whether a computer system has been infected with a virus or not. Generally, this software runs in the background (background) and do a scan of all files that are accessed (opened, modified, or when stored).

With earlier explanation would arise the question how to choose the best antivirus? Here I am trying to wrap up a barometer of what is used in choosing antivirus products.

B. What are the priority in determining the quality of an antivirus product?
From the survey results, then get priority in choosing antivirus reference:

- Detection Rate Test
It is a test of antivirus signature base of thousands and even millions of virus samples, and then compare Which most antivirus detects the virus samples.

- Heuristic / Prospective / Generic Test
It is a test virus / new malware that does not exist in the database (signature file), but use it as a reference signature database to detect virus / malware new, if there are characteristics of the virus / malware then the heuristic function will detect it.

In this case such as DNA in humans, for example, Peter Parker is a virus and has existed in an anti-virus signature database, so it can detect that this is a virus, but when Peter Parker then transformed into Spiderman, then the basic anti-virus signature database not recognize that this virus / malware, but the heuristic function will see that the DNA of Peter Parker and Spiderman are the same, then the antivirus software will also detect that this is a virus / malware. So the heuristic function is very important after Signature Database.

- Performance Test
Use antivirus course will take a computer resource, such as CPU, Memory, our role here is to be smart in choosing antivirus products that have well-resourced settings, so as not to disturb the performance of the computer.

Currently, there are many antivirus software that uses multiple engines in their products, some use 2 (two) engines, or even a 7 (seven) engine, where it would interfere with the performance of computers, resources / resources will be widely used computers, compared with only 1 (one) engine, among others:

* Gdata: 2 Engines (Bitdefender engine hire & Avast)
* Trusport: 3 Engines (renting engines: AVG, Norman and Dr.Web)