What are the benefits of using antivirus programes?

Answer 1

Many security teams struggle for visibility and control over the data residing inside their organizations.

Imagine trying to index and classify the safe use of all content outside on the internet as well. There

are terabytes of data inside enterprise networks, petabytes of content on the Internet, and staggering

growth trends for each. This data is highly volatile, sometimes changing in seconds as needs dictate and

Web 2.0 allows.

Not all of these rapid changes are desirable, or even intentional. In particular, Websense Security Labs

found that more than half of all Websites hosting malicious content during the second half of 2007 were

legitimate sites that had been recently hacked. With Web 2.0, hacks happen in the space of a

few keystrokes.

Websense security researchers overcome these challenges using the Websense HoneyGrid, an adaptive

classification and research system within the Websense ThreatSeeker™ network. The HoneyGrid active

feedback network uses over 50 million systems to monitor and accurately classify the full range of

Internet and enterprise content-not just Web URLs, but all types of Web, email, data, and application

content-in real-time. These broadly distributed systems automatically track changing content and

trends, collect security research material, and instantly adapt to changes through a perpetual stream of

probes and updates.

Answer 2

Think of an anti virus being your mother/father/guardian when your growing up it protects through the bad times and the good times plain speeking it will protect your computer and you would be stupid not to have one i recommend Avast .