Favorite antivirus

[JesseBassett]

Which antivirus program do y'all use? As a student, I was able to get malwarebytes premium for $5 for 4 years. I like that out of all the programs I have used....

 

[Within Reason]

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Which antivirus program do y'all use? As a student, I was able to get malwarebytes premium for $5 for 4 years. I like that out of all the programs I have used....

I use Avast mostly, and if anything else I might use - VirusTotal

Both are free and work just fine.

For you:

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

Right now I'm winging Linux without one, but on Windows the absolute worst one I ever had to deal with was Norton. It hogged resources like crazy, and it still let me get a couple of baddies.

 

[Carl Emerson]

Swapping to the browser 'Brave' has been great.

I occasionally run Malware but very rarely find anything these days.

 

[Wookiee]

I just roll with Windows Defender.

 

[JesseBassett]

My IT guy recommended I just stay with Windows Security, but I feel like it missed stuff. Which was why I just went with Malwarebytes. For $5 for 4 years, heck, that's not much to spend it on.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Kaspersky.

 

[Wookiee]

My IT guy recommended I just stay with Windows Security, but I feel like it missed stuff. Which was why I just went with Malwarebytes. For $5 for 4 years, heck, that's not much to spend it on.

It depends. MalwareBytes - the free version, which isn't realtime - searches for extra stuff that Defender will ignore like cookies, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs), etc. This is stuff you don't usually want on your computer, but it's also not necessarily going to cause you issues. Premium appears to have a couple of extra features, but nothing particularly ground breaking.

I haven't checked the numbers in a while, but Defender was doing quite well a while back. The main thing to consider is viruses are getting re-written daily, so inevitably if you stumble across the wrong strain, it will get through to your computer, no matter what AV you have.

Having an AV is super important, but it's also equally as important to have safe browsing habits.

 

[JesseBassett]

I actually found out that my ISP has a contract with Norton so I can fully use their norton 360 for free! So I am using that now. Very good program.