Information security
experts told us that the built-in Windows Defender is good-enough antivirus for
most Windows PC owners, and that both Mac and Windows users should consider
using Malware bytes Premium, an anti-malware program that augments both
operating systems’ built-in protections. These options provide reliable
protection without slowing your computer significantly, installing unwanted add-ons, or harassing you about upgrades.
We set out to do a
standard Wirecutter guide to the best antivirus app, so we spent months
researching products, reading reports from independent testing labs and
institutions, and consulting experts on safe computing. And after all that, we
learned that most people should neither pay for a traditional antivirus suite,
such as McAfee, Norton, or Kaspersky, nor The “best antivirus” for most people
to buy, it turns out, is not a traditional antivirus package.
Well, I use F-Secure Internet Security full time
now (anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall) all in one package, but when I
installed it, I forgot to uninstall Avast A/V and ran into all kinds of
problems, (freezes, crashes), but that all stopped when I got rid of
(uninstalled) the Avast. F-Secure disabled my Windows Defender & Windows
Firewall by default upon installation and so far, so good.
Remember the key is you should not install more than one real-time
background scanning security program. Most people will do fine with just a
simple hardware firewall (router), Windows Firewall, Windows Defender (Vista/7,
Keeping Windows updated, having a real time basic virus scanner like Norton or
McAfee and then using an on demand product like Malware bytes for when you think there may be a problem.
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