Best antivirus program

[Wendy Hubbard]

My laptop recently got alot of malwares and viruses and i try many antivirus programs (the free editions) , But no way my laptop still have the virus.

 

Please can you recommend me a good anti-virus.

 

Wendy,

ConsumerEpic.com

 

[jiyeon]

I tend to just trust WIndows Defender since it's built-in so there's no setup or extra payments to be done. I find with external 3rd party anti-viruses is that they slow down PC performance quite a bit.

 

I recommend giving Malwarebytes a run. I've not used it a lot to be honest, I've used it once on my old laptop to see if there was any excess junk on it.

[Radium_Angel]

17 minutes ago, Wendy Hubbard said:

Please can you recommend me a good anti-virus.

Common sense and run as limited user. Use lots of ad-blocking software. Download stuff in a windows VM and test there 1st.

No AV software needed.

[.Apex.]

32 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Use lots of ad-blocking software.

All at once? and if so can you recommend some?

[Phentos]

1 hour ago, _Syn_ said:

All at once? and if so can you recommend some?

uBlock Origin is a good place to start. 

 

If you want to go balls deep into blocking all the ads you can, a DNS-based solution such as PiHole works too. That has the bonus of getting around those pesky anti-adblocker warnings you get on a lot of sites now.

[.Apex.]

Just now, Phentos said:

If you want to go balls deep into blocking all the ads you can

hahahahaha
 

1 minute ago, Phentos said:

uBlock Origin is a good place to start. 

1 minute ago, Phentos said:

a DNS-based solution such as PiHole works too. That has the bonus of getting around those pesky anti-adblocker warnings you get on a lot of sites now.

Thank you

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

11 hours ago, _Syn_ said:

All at once? and if so can you recommend some?

On Chome, uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, FlashControl, Disconnect, Decentraleyes. Or as the other person said, use PiHole or pfsense (both require additional hardware and a working knowledge of routing and networking)

[LogicalDrm]

Based on scores, Kaspersky is top right now. But first you would need to indentify, where you get the virusses. Like what sites you use, do you download shady files, hava cracked OS/software etc. And if you can't find anything out that way, then paid AV with active scanning should take things into control.