Anti -Virus Software

[ianrauk]

Norton runs out in seven days and from your helpful comments i think i'm going to give MS Defender a go.

Worth giving it a go see if it suits you.

 

[PK99]

I'm with by internet which bundles in McAfee for all the family devices: pc, laptop,tablets, phones...

 

[Dave7]

Defender, Malwarebytes and CCleaner. Just the basic free versions. Years ago, the Norton helpline actually had the dubious honour of completely lousing up my PC to the extent that I had to reinstall Windows from scratch. A valuable lesson...……...don't ever, ever let an "expert" take remote control of your computer.

I fancy installing CCleaner but when I looked at it (some years ago) there were lots of tick boxes and I couldn't figure out which ones to tick.
Any suggestions ??
I am just a social user now.

 

[newts]

We've used Avast free for many years on all the families pc's .
Spybot S&D free run monthly is good housekeeping
Malwarebytes & ccleaner periodically.

 

[si_c]

I run only the built in windows 10 anti virus software. It's very lightweight with no impact on system running, well integrated and I have never had to think about it. That being said I'm also very careful around my online behaviour, I run a full suite of privacy, adblock and security plugins for my browser, and Firefox has built in protections these days too.

I run windows with a non-administrative account and for dubious software or downloads I spin up a virtual machine and download them there. I've not had a virus infection since the early 2000s.

That being said Windows 10, as with all modern OSs, is incredibly secure and gets more so with time.

 

[PaulSB]

I've used Windows for perhaps 20 years without a problem. My basic belief is MS are not going to offer a product to protect their own products unless it's very good.

I've had AVG, Kaspersky, Norton and MacFee. All of them screwed the PC/laptop one way or another. All a nightmare to uninstall as they bury themselves deep in the machine.

I'd never pay for any of those again. Rogues.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I fancy installing CCleaner but when I looked at it (some years ago) there were lots of tick boxes and I couldn't figure out which ones to tick.
Any suggestions ??
I am just a social user now.

As long as you do not click "Wipe drive C", or whatever your hard disc is.

And no, I'm not going to tell you how I found that out

 

[slowmotion]

I fancy installing CCleaner but when I looked at it (some years ago) there were lots of tick boxes and I couldn't figure out which ones to tick.
Any suggestions ??
I am just a social user now.

I downloaded the free version and only really use the Custom Clean feature. I ticked pretty much every box in the left hand menu except the "saved passwords" one. It's worth keeping a link to CCleaner on your desktop. When someone tries to lock up your machine and encourages you to phone their "engineers" in order to fix the problem, just run CCleaner and cast them into outer darkness.

 

[DaveReading]

When someone tries to lock up your machine and encourages you to phone their "engineers" in order to fix the problem, just run CCleaner and cast them into outer darkness.

Or - quicker - just put the phone down.

 

[coldash]

A couple of years ago a new version of CCleaner had a virus / spyware corruption after their servers were hacked, so nothing is perfect

(and any machine that gets borked by the addition of Kaspersky etc was borked before they were added - probably all the stuff from these porn sites )