How Do You Know if a Review Is Really Accurate?
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The technology revolution has all of us in its grips. Everybody wants to start a website with information that people are actually looking for, and one of those things is antivirus reviews. While this is a good thing – knowledge is power, after all – it can also be a bad thing. After all, how do you know if a review is really accurate? Plus, how do you know their experience will correspond with yours, since everybody is different?
Why Some Reviews Are Bogus
A tiny minority of reviews are bogus for malicious purposes. However, by employing a rule of thumb of needing to see a similar opinion from at least two separate sources should help you avoid this. A bigger problem is that so many people simple don’t know what they are talking about. For instance, someone may have downloaded a program that didn’t function properly, believing it to be a virus. They then used a scanner, which found no issues, and then promptly leave it a bad review. This is not malicious, but simply erroneous.
When Reviews Do Work
There are a couple of things that you must firstly understand:
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Not everybody is an expert, not even if they have used the same things several times.
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There are so many options out there that it is impossible to review everything.
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There are ways to make sure you still get what you need.
That final point is the important one: you need to get what you need. So how do you go about that? One way has already been revealed: you need to get at least two similar opinions from two separate sources. This will tell you, if nothing else, that there is some truth in what is being said as two different people have the same experience. But there is more as well. The biggest question you need to ask yourself is what you actually need out of your antivirus program. A business with 1,000 employees and restricted internet access, for instance, has very different needs from a freelance copywriter, who in turn has very different needs from the parents of a young boy. Once you know what you actually need, it is a lot easier to sift through all the information and find the program that best corresponds to that.
Write a list of things that matter to you. Issues such as ease of installation, ease of use, frequency of updates, price, parental control, firewalls, etc, are all important, and all good antivirus programs offer this at the very least. How reviews can then help you is to show you how well each program that is out there features on the things that you find important. Often, this is even presented on an easy comparison table, enabling you to really see how two or more programs compare to each other. Last but not least, use the free trial that any good antivirus program offers to just confirm things for yourself.
