How many of you use third-party antivirus?

[BlockedTheShot]

I don't use antivirus on any of my pcs(not even on my windows xp laptop, i don't use it that often though).

[GoldenLag]

you dont need more than the following

 

1. Windows Defender
2. Malwarebytes (anti-malware)
3. a little common sense

 

in regular use mind you. and do a search using malwarebytes every now and then

[FlappyBoobs]

Needs a 3rd option. 

 

I don't use AV at home, because I don't have anything important that's not backed up and it's a resource hog. (Literally a single website) 

 

But at work I have SEP because the machine is pretty powerful and gaining 5 fps in visual studio means nothing. 

[bleedblue]

Does Windows Defender count?

[BlockedTheShot]

1 minute ago, bleedblue said:

Does Windows Defender count?

i forgot to account for that(edited the title). imo, not really

[Pasi123]

I have Microsoft Security Essentials and free version of Malwarebytes.

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, Pasi123 said:

I have Microsoft Security Essentials and free version of Malwarebytes.

best combo for free protection tbh. 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

Best anti virus is a offline PC for docs/ work.

and the experience from try and error downloading all the fishy stuff. anything weird found, just reinstall windows~~

 

 

those antivirus  are consider virus to me, constantly scanning my files, "sometime " deletes my game dll files, sending my data out quietly, warning popup that does nothing & non close-able etc 

 

 

[LukeSavenije]

16 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

1. Windows Defender
2. Malwarebytes (anti-malware)
3. a little common sense

that's exactly what i use too

 

and i count is as both a third party and a first party

[Triventular]

the reason i don't use anti virus is because I used to have a very slow 5400rpm hard drive for my pc and having a system scan running in the background at times really causes everything to lag so i never bothered installing any and disabling windows defender. Tho after running with no anti virus for a few years.. it was fine for me. the moments i had a legit virus, i just end up reformatting my pc at the perfect time too

[GoldenLag]

16 minutes ago, Triventular said:

Tho after running with no anti virus for a few years.. it was fine for me. the moments i had a legit virus, i just end up reformatting my pc at the perfect time too

the issue is when you dont know you have a virus, trojan or bot-net. 

 

hence its recommended to run windows defender + malwarebytes and do a scan every now and then. unless you have malwarebytes premium, it wont do any scans in the background. 

[Triventular]

16 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

the issue is when you dont know you have a virus, trojan or bot-net. 

 

hence its recommended to run windows defender + malwarebytes and do a scan every now and then. unless you have malwarebytes premium, it wont do any scans in the background. 

ye but back then i was using a laptop for school and important stuff, i mostly used my pc to game and it didnt really have anything much installed on it so i was fine with it being formatted when something serious happens.. now i just have clamwin (i know, im gonna change to something better) and windows defender since my library since then has grown and some of my save files are saved locally

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

18 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

hence its recommended to run windows defender + malwarebytes and do a scan every now and then. unless you have malwarebytes premium, it wont do any scans in the background. 

do you know how slow the scan stuff on hard drive?

eg I turn on pc just for web browsing with chrome and with norton installed, it took at least 5 min from boot till finally usable. (pc is not a potato and virus free)

this is what I call a virus

[GoldenLag]

Just now, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

do you know how slow the scan stuff on hard drive?

eg I turn on pc just for web browsing with chrome and with norton installed, it took at least 5 min from boot till finally usable. (pc is not a potato and virus free)

this is what I call a virus

well...... dont use active scans or Malwarebytes Premium.........

 

i mean its a reason why i dont use malwarebytes premium, its due to the scans running in the background

 

-someone who uses a 2012 laptop

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

38 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

do you know how slow the scan stuff on hard drive?

eg I turn on pc just for web browsing with chrome and with norton installed, it took at least 5 min from boot till finally usable. (pc is not a potato and virus free)

this is what I call a virus

A CPU with more cores means faster scans, and some free swap space on the hard drive helps too  ... but really you use Norton, it is nothing but bloatware IMO.

In my case is just as described by @GoldenLag

1. Windows Defender
2. Malwarebytes (anti-malware)
3. a little common sense

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

1 minute ago, SydneySideSteveSomewheres said:

A CPU with more cores means faster scans, and some free swap space on the hard drive helps too 

btw that was my i5 2500, 12gb ram & 100% disk usage for roughly 5 min , did everything I could

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

1 minute ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

btw that was my i5 2500, 12gb ram & 100% disk usage for roughly 5 min , did everything I could

I think that Microsoft has created an area dedicated to virtual memory in the most recent OS update to Windows 10 to prevent lags when Windows Defender is running.

 

That machine of yours is no slouch but, you didn't uninstall Norton Anti-Virus, though. Before the free Windows Defender came along, I tried to be patient with Norton AV, but with those lags, I moved swiftly to AVG free.

[LogicalDrm]

I have paid version of BitDefender. Mainly because its cheap and I like the free version already. If I would need to pay more than €15/year/3pcs, then it would be back to free. I have little trust issue with MS software.