Let's talk about anti virus software

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January 19, 2020, 01:22 PM

Warhorse

Let's talk about anti virus software

I bought a new 'puter this last black Friday. It came with a free trial of Norton anti virus. I am trying to see if there is a better option out there.
I dropped my paid for Avast subscription on my old 'puter after it started acting up, and was surprisingly happy just running Windows Defender.

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January 19, 2020, 01:24 PM

ArtieS

I just bought a new windows machine at the beginning of December on the advice of a local computer consultant. He recommended i just stick with Windows Defender.

I had been an Avast customer for a long time, but it got slow and bitchy, and I dropped it.

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

January 19, 2020, 01:32 PM

craigcpa

Windows Defender.

All else on a lone computer is superfluous. Now, is your router secured?

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January 19, 2020, 01:36 PM

clubleaf206

I’ve seen it mentioned that Norton is a resource hog. I use malwarebytes, superantispyware, avast and windows defender, they all play well with each other.

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January 19, 2020, 02:18 PM

Pipe Smoker

Malwarebytes (free version) for me. I don’t have cycle-stealing real time protection enabled. Instead, I do this once a day:

* Disconnect from the Internet.
* Run a Malwarebytes scan (takes 9 seconds).
* If I get a “Congratulations, you are clean!” report (always do), then I do a backup. That way, I know that all of my backups are clean.
* Reconnect to the Internet and resume operations.

Serious about crackers.

January 19, 2020, 02:52 PM

bayouman

I have a two yo Dell laptop and have used the free versions of Malwarebytes and AVG with no problems and both are very effective.

Bayouman
Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

January 19, 2020, 02:53 PM

cruiser68

Been running Eset Smart Security on quote a few computers. Resource usage is very low and, knock on wood, I have not had any issues in many years.

January 19, 2020, 02:55 PM

erj_pilot

Norton? Yeah...ditched that bitch YEARS ago. I wouldn't recommend it for single-system use, but might...MIGHT...use it as a server-based application as a LAST resort. Defender in Windows 10 does a good enough job, IMHO. If you want to couple that with Malwarebytes "just because", that would probably work out OK.

I'm about to install a new Dell Windows 10 system for my mother this coming week and plan on just using Defender updated automatically.

"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24

January 19, 2020, 03:20 PM

Aeteocles

Windows Defender.

Then, set up regular backups of your data.

Then, set up an air-gapped backup of your backup.

January 19, 2020, 06:26 PM

Warhorse

Thanks guys, I will stick with Windows Defender when this free Norton subscription expires.