Best Antivirus
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Use Avast free antivirus. That's what I use for W10,
You can also pay for the premium version.
Windows 10 has a built in anti-virus, although it is not as good as others. Combine that with an add blocker like uBlock, a flash or scripting blocker plus common sense is good enough for most people.
If you go to porn or shady sites or regularly click on random links in emails sent by Nigerian princes, then add some extra protection with Bit Defender antivirus.
If you go to porn or shady sites or regularly click on random links in emails sent by Nigerian princes, then add some extra protection with Bit Defender antivirus.
Right now I'm using paid version of NOD32 and Its ok (light on resources, quick scans but false positives) . In next few weeks a lot of stuff goes on sale for Black Friday etc. Check SlickDeals daily. I've used free Avast and it was ok until they started making it more ponderous. I turn off some of the safe surfing stuff since it slows down too many things. Most days I don't even start the AV since I don't really get malware and the apps miss stuff anyway. I scan with malwarebytes once a week or so and it never shows anything. I reinstall OS from an ISO image a few times a year
I guess that would include this site because this site has already had virus problems (not the fault of Scarlet Nation, Rivals sold banner ads to companies that got caught in my antivirus)
A lot of times ads trigger false positives. Apps interpret them as malicious executables. There's too many ads and garbage on sites these days. I use NoScript for Firefox to block a lot of things.
I use Bitdefender and Malwarebytes for virus and malware, and COMODO for firewall software. (all free versions)
Check out these site for a list:
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-desktop-antivirus-applications-1607557993
http://www.howtogeek.com/225385/what’s-the-best-antivirus-for-windows-10-is-windows-defender-good-enough/
Check out these site for a list:
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-desktop-antivirus-applications-1607557993
http://www.howtogeek.com/225385/what’s-the-best-antivirus-for-windows-10-is-windows-defender-good-enough/
Wash hands for at least 15 seconds before and after contacting other people, before eating and after using restroom.
The site below does a good job of reviewing regularly against different platforms, but they don't have any results on 10 yet. Microsoft Security Essentials protected poorly compared to most others on the last Windows 8.1 tests. Kaspersky did very well. Any of these are only as good as their ability to identify and protect against new threats, so how they did yesterday won't necessarily help tomorrow.
https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-8/
Given the way Windows 10 forces auto updates ,an argument could be made that it is itself, malware.
https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-8/
Given the way Windows 10 forces auto updates ,an argument could be made that it is itself, malware.
Does MSFT security essentials not work with Win10? If it does, just use that because it's good enough, it's free and it's automatic. Nobody's AV is perfect, they all miss things. But whatever AV you use, you should be using a few other things if you want to be as secure as possible:
Purchase and install the pro version of Malwarebytes.
For web browsing:
(1) Use the Disconnect plugin (must be installed first)
(2) Use Firefox as your browser and use the NoScript plugin. NoScript prevents sites from running Javascript and allows you to selectively enable various scripts on any given site. And be parsimonious about which scripts you allow. Never allow more than necessary to do what you need to do at any given site and for sites that are not highly likely to be safe, don't allow any scripts to run.
(3) Use the ad-block plus plugin.
Of all those things, the thing that will do the most to keep you safe is NoScript. If you let any site run whatever Javascript it wants, then it doesn't really matter what AV software you have, you'll eventually get infected with stuff and you're constantly exposed. Let me put it like this: if you're not using NoScript, then I hope you're not doing online banking via your web browser because you're relying on luck and statistics to protect access to your accounts otherwise.
Purchase and install the pro version of Malwarebytes.
For web browsing:
(1) Use the Disconnect plugin (must be installed first)
(2) Use Firefox as your browser and use the NoScript plugin. NoScript prevents sites from running Javascript and allows you to selectively enable various scripts on any given site. And be parsimonious about which scripts you allow. Never allow more than necessary to do what you need to do at any given site and for sites that are not highly likely to be safe, don't allow any scripts to run.
(3) Use the ad-block plus plugin.
Of all those things, the thing that will do the most to keep you safe is NoScript. If you let any site run whatever Javascript it wants, then it doesn't really matter what AV software you have, you'll eventually get infected with stuff and you're constantly exposed. Let me put it like this: if you're not using NoScript, then I hope you're not doing online banking via your web browser because you're relying on luck and statistics to protect access to your accounts otherwise.
I use two PCs, a Dell and a Mac.
I use the Mac exclusively for all financial transactions. Never for casual browsing and certainly never in Scarlet Nation.
The Dell I use for everything else (gaming, etc), and I have on it Bitdefender and Malwarebytes. While you can get them for free, the paid versions are some of the best in the industry - including Nortons and McAfee.
Windows Defender is as good as any and it comes with windows 10. have a friend it the business and he claims virtually all of the free stuff and the paid stuff gets their anti virus and malware updates from Microsoft. He claims the first place you will see anti virus updates is from Microsoft.
I would also recommend the Webmail Ad Blocker plugin - works wonders with ads on Yahoo, Google and Hotmail/Live/Outlook/whatever the hell Microsoft decides to call it.
ScriptSafe, ScriptBlock and similar Chrome plugins are not really equivalent to NoScript on Firefox due to constraints in the Chrome plugin architecture. Which isn't to say that if one insists on using Chrome, that they aren't better than nothing. But it's not really the same thing.
If people do use Chrome for public web browsing, which I sometimes do, my recommendation would be to limit it's use to known, trusted websites. And then use Firefox and NoScript for unknown or untrusted websites.
tried noscript - that's one sad internet, but good to know about.
I'm bummed that Intel announced today it is ditching its McAfee SaaS email protection - formerly MxLogic, This follows Microsoft killing off Forefront. These were were useful services for on premises servers. While poking around on the story, I came across an article linking Clintons email issues. Apparently people figured out from her publicly available domain mx record that she used MxLogic to scan her email. Whatever security she may have achieved on her private server, she was routing all her email through a 3rd party 'consumer' service where admins likely had full access to everything, and where traces of whatever was deleted may have remained. Yikes.
I'm bummed that Intel announced today it is ditching its McAfee SaaS email protection - formerly MxLogic, This follows Microsoft killing off Forefront. These were were useful services for on premises servers. While poking around on the story, I came across an article linking Clintons email issues. Apparently people figured out from her publicly available domain mx record that she used MxLogic to scan her email. Whatever security she may have achieved on her private server, she was routing all her email through a 3rd party 'consumer' service where admins likely had full access to everything, and where traces of whatever was deleted may have remained. Yikes.