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Avira: 25 pct PC users disable antivirus software
By admin | December 19, 2010
A new survey from the German antivirus and computer security company Avira for about 1 to 4 PC users because the program on their PC will admit the virus protection off to slow down your computer found. In addition, more than 3 out of 5 (72.3%) Multiple computer security products, the one they like, expect to find on the same computer, the scope of a year and nearly one in eight (12%) Try completely safe on the Internet is increasingly considered to be the reason.
“The scary is 25% that they felt the performance of your computer, it hurts because their security products off to just admit that turning the survey respondents the survey take-away from the” Avira’s Sorin Mustaca said. “It’s not a excellent thought of such a practice even simple leaves your computer fully exposed to the virus, malware and phishing for deploying it in a botnet that include the terrible guys.”
Results based on 9495 responder but Avira is a survey question of November 2010 100 million or more were place Avira customer world says. Avira response for 1 percent of the error margin … although, had the respondents 0.28 self-selecting between know how well if Avira’s customers also general computer users, or the result is hard to say. (Mac malware universe a tiny fraction of the target Windows, so for example, most of the Mac OS X users have antivirus software, you do not use the-now anyway.)
Avira antivirus vendor overall system performance for the need to take special care with the interpretation of the results-that is, users face if you stay less attention to draw themselves even less protection. “All the whistles and his computer is available to allow the user to disable the bells, protection is unnoticed than minimal protection is better,” noted Mustaca.
Avira’s survey a wide range of Windows user groups can be generalized to the case in most of the Windows on the same computer as the user multiple antivirus and security product 1 during the course of your own PC, ensure the security of the vast majority of people who are interested your antivirus product, dissatisfied, indicating that it’s fascinating to try. Should not go to the results of the Avira is why security product of the respondents on the transition: one, although you can certainly system performance factors role as the price.
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