Regarding Antivirus Issue

True, but only to an extend.

Most anti virus programs use virus signature scanning to detect viruses on your computer. This means that the anti virus program has a list of known virus signatures in it's database, and checks this database each time your PC opens or access any file. Because it can take a few milliseconds to screen every file through a list of many thousands of virus signatures, it is common for an anti virus program to make your computer run a little slower after installation. One measure the effectiveness of an anti virus program is how much it does, or does not slow down a computer after installation.

Heard a lot that Mcafee & Norton Antivirus makes a system very slow than compaire to any other Antivirus

Yes, its true. But the more RAM u have, the less sluggish it will be.

True.All antivirus products scan every file u open,copy etc in the background,so there is a little lag in opening of the app.Norton earlier versions were very heavy & used to slow down the system considerably.Newer versions are better.If you find ur sys a bit slow,then you can set the background av agent to low priority,so it won't have a hit on performance.

Try Avast if U want free.Else NOD32 is best small antivirus. They eat very small system resource.

And dear...not only antivirus, but installing any software will eat little system resource.

hm.........thanks a lot guys

If you want free go to Avira(detection rate is close to Kaspersky) else Kaspersky is the good solution...

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Installing any type of Antivirus ......slows down system???????True or False.... Is true......why so????

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if you have a Slow system than go for NOD

I wont reccommend a Norton on any system. That AV is total ****.