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My free norton is about to end any good free anti-virus software?

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I remember Linus talking about the anti-virus he uses but, I cant remember what it was. So what anti=virus do you guys use that is easy to use and seems like a legit thing?

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Malwarebytes, windows defender. All you need there, norton is horrible.  You probably has viruses on your computer right now it didn't find. Avast is good too, but I stopped using it because of way too many false positives and it was way too difficult to ignore them. It didn't work half the time no matter what I set to exclude. 

 

Download web of trust as well, tells you if a link is good or bad before you click it. Then it warns you if the website could be malicious.

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Malwarebytes for me 

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Brain + MB = Perfection, MB is for when your brain farts or someone uses your computer.

 

If you regularly have other people using your PC then Avast! + MB is a good combo. Avast for real-time scan and MB for more occasional scans.

 

MB is MalwareBytes in case you didn't know.

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I remember Linus talking about the anti-virus he uses but, I cant remember what it was. So what anti=virus do you guys use that is easy to use and seems like a legit thing?

 

Get rid of norton, and install avast.

 

To me, norton seems like somewhat of a virus in itself, making itself difficult to remove at times, slowing your computer, being a waste of space, etc...

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Avast + Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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a brain, dont download dodgy things, and your pretty much set.

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Malwarebytes is one of the best. And a brain is also a good combo

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Nortons 'in the past' was very very resource hungry because it would scan not just written files, but files being read from the drive, hence all the slowness/disk being accessed upon ANY file reads/writes made the machine slow as a pig.

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I think AVG free is a good one since I used to use it on my old pc (about a year ago) and they packed a lot of useful stuff into a free anti-virus; but it's better if you have the money to buy a licensed anti-virus since it will protect you better

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As said before, responsible browsing just about eliminates the need for an AV. 

 

That being said, MSE is good, free, doesn't use a lot of resources and doesn't have those annoying ads and pop-ups urging you to buy a full version.

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