Very often, when people find that their computer is running slower than usual, they start a desperate task to find out what is going on, check open programs, close them from the settings and restart the equipment. Despite this, A program that is always overlooked but can be responsible for producing these failures in computers is the antivirus.

The purpose of an antivirus is to protect the computer from cyber threats that generally await users on the Internet, in this way various tasks can be performed without any risk to the device. For this reason, it is necessary to install this type of software.which usually runs in the background and this is where the problem of slowing down the system occurs.

These antivirus programs work by monitoring all operations performed on computers, analyzing downloaded files, other open programs, web browsing, and other activities. And in this way, it determines whether a particular process is trustworthy or, on the contrary, puts the computer at risk of infection.

But It is during these types of activities that this cyber security software sometimes freezes and ends up using more CPU power and internal memory than usual. Something that, for example, was very common with antiviruses that are pre-installed on some Windows 10 and 11 computers.

It is not clear why this type of problem occurs with antivirus programs, but what is clear is that it is They must not be uninstalled in the world, otherwise the computer will be completely vulnerable. It’s not even necessary because these types of problems can be solved with these simple steps.

– In the first case, if errors are detected in the computer, proceed with a typical restart, in this way all antivirus processes that may be blocked will be downloaded from memory and loaded correctly.

– If the failures persist, it is recommended to check for software updates, because if this is not the case, there may be delays in the engine and the software database.

Another reason why an antivirus can slow down a computer is that parsing a file that is too large As a very heavy program, compressed with many files inside, folders containing several files and other types of files, this is actually more normal than you think.

To solve this particular problem, on the one hand You can manually analyze a given file, That is, a folder or program is selected, right-click and select the option to analyze it with an antivirus, or proceed as determined by each operating system.

and on the other hand If they are no longer needed, these large files can be deleted such as games, programs or folders with too much information which were problematic for antivirus to manage, And therefore, it will no longer be blocked when analyzing possible threats.

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