I like trying out antivirus software, my question is if I install and afer a while uninstall antivirus software will doing that mess up my operating system considering I use my real system and not anything like vmware ?
question about antivirus software
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carl fish said:
Everytime you install an antivirus, it creates on your system some drivers, registry entries and files not forcibly removed during their uninstallation (Norton is famous for that...), so more you install, more you will have leftovers that may slow/cripple your system (especially drivers located in "non-plug and play drivers"); it is why heavy testers like us are using VMs (or Rollback system).
I test different products all the time on my production machine, as long as you are capable enough to remove all remnants of the product before moving on to another you should be fine. You can use products such as Revo uninstaller to help with the process. Others here may have a different view on this, but i test them this way as i like to see how they will perform "resource wise" on my real time system. Testing Malware is another story though.
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