Anti virus

I stay away from dodgy websites, don't open emails from people I don't know and use adguard to clean up websites I do use.
 
Those are both awful. For the last decade I have just used the built in one in windows (Microsoft security essentials). No issues. Doesnt have nearly the overhead as others. Free. I used to use bitdefender and a few others but they all circled the drain (and after acquisition I believe a few were closer to viruses than antivirus).
 
GreyGhost said:
I have just used the built in one in windows (Microsoft security essentials).
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Same.
Should be more than enough.

If you want to visit dodgy website then just use a virtual machine...easy to rebuild from snapshot if it gets nuked and chances for malware to break out of the VM are little to none.
 
POWERMAN said:
Same.
Should be more than enough.

If you want to visit dodgy website then just use a virtual machine...easy to rebuild from snapshot if it gets nuked and chances for malware to break out of the VM are little to none.
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Same here, Defender works for me and doesn't interfere with some finicky software I use from time to time. I built a VM a few years back to run an XP program on a W 8.1 laptop. The whole process was kinda unsuccessful and made me want to go live in a grass hut in a hot place.
 
2nd, 3rd MS built in security essential etc. No other antivirus needed and stay on top of OS security updates
Also add uBlock to your web browser or some other spam/ad/js type blocker.
 
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