Need some recommendations please for paid antivirus. Its for a family of 5 so will need to protect Windows computers and phones. Thanks in advance.
Need some recommendations please for paid antivirus. Its for a family of 5 so will need to protect Windows computers and phones. Thanks in advance.
They're all next to useless, so you might as well plump for a free one.
Agree, use the free
Windows Defender
and regularly scan with the free versions of
ccleaner
and
malwarebytes
What Harry and Blue said.
I use bitdefender free versionbecause it does everything in the background. I also use Free version of Glary utilities for general computer house cleaning and run malwarebytes. The free version of sandboxie works quite well if you are surfing it isolates the download. I found it quite useful. I use W7 so don't know about whats good forW10.
I bought Avast 2 years ...no problem
Apart from wasting your money, no.
I use 360 Total Security which is free and has multiple engines. It was the only one that picked up 0-day malware (ransomware) in spreadsheets of which we've been getting many waves at work recently (which were otherwise safely quarantined for having scripts in them).
There are so many new variants these days that signature-based antivirus is a crap shoot.
used Avast for years but found it has become too bloated... now using Avira
Great a Chinese antivirus.Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Originally Posted by NawtierI've been using the free version of Avast for at least a decade and it has always done the job. Have to agree with Neo though, it has gotten bloated. Too many popups now too, trying to sell their pay version.Originally Posted by Neo
Still using it so far...may be time for a change.
Originally Posted by SKkinI can't imagine why a "for profit" style of business would act in that manner.Originally Posted by SKkin
Avira and AVG have served me well over the years. I like AVG because there's one package you can buy where you can protect everything from your phones phones to home computers at one price.
ESET Nod32 forever !!! best AV
still is, dickhead
Capitalist scum!Originally Posted by CSFFan
The Avast popups and bloat just started within the last 2 or 3 years...if I'm remembering correctly. Maybe it's been longer.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Kaspersky yet. Maybe it's the Trump effect.
what bothers me is that you seem able to get most security software free on torrent sites ..
can't they even protect their own products ?
I think with Avast is that it offers its free service to gain a wider data set of virus and malware that it can then better protect the paid corporate clients. I guess that's not such a profitable plan anymore and the free software has become more intrusive. I looked hard at alternatives as I was reluctant to give Avast up and found Avira to be the best of the free software and it does exactly what Avast used to do, protect me with minimal fuss or notifications. I ran spybot, malwarebytes and drweb a few times after the install and found no problems at all.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
Yesterday I strolled around the local IT Mall to get an idea of prices for a good Virus Killer. Only saw Kaspersky and BitDefender, didn't see any other names. Both only offered 1 year packages though.
Only had 4-5 shops selling them and one had a promotion by BitDefender. 1yr/1pc package for 599Baht. Buy 1 get 2 Free. I've only got the one pc so would do me for 3 years at 200B per year. Peanuts.
Are Free versions really Free? Or are they Free but............
They're free... the advantage to the provider is that it has a wider exposure to possible threats and so can provide better protection to its paid customers.
They're fighting a losing battle. There are 350,000+ new variants being released every day.
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