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What is the best free antivirus in terms of protection and performance? I'm tired of my classmates plugging malware-infested flash drives on my laptop. I'm using a combination of Windows Defender and MBAM Free, but I've heard that Defender just doesn't cut it. Should I stick to it or just use another program?

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2 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

Hi there! :)

 

What is the best free antivirus in terms of protection and performance? I'm tired of my classmates plugging malware-infested flash drives on my laptop. I'm using a combination of Windows Defender and MBAM Free, but I've heard that Defender just doesn't cut it. Should I stick to it or just use another program?

mbam is fine, use windows defender with mbam and you are sorteeeed

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Malware bytes + common sense. i also throw on Avast on there, saved me from a few trojans

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you could try and use Avira it works decently, but like all free antiviruses they usually skip some files and leave some infected.

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2 minutes ago, nobiggieBIG said:

mbam is fine, use windows defender with mbam and you are sorteeeed

 

I'm the video editor of our class, and the drives with the raw files are infected

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17 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

What is the best free antivirus in terms of protection and performance?

firefox + adblock + noscript

18 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

I'm tired of my classmates plugging malware-infested flash drives on my laptop.

have you tried punching them in the face? thats what i call protection. get a fckn rotty to guard your shit.

 

but seriously disable autorun on usb and you can get physical guards for usb if you are paranoid about dickheads plugging crap in. i have a desktop computer for work and i treat my laptop like a dirty slut. its pretty much the village bicycle. it has no access to mu personal accounts. you might want to look into having a usb fob key to access personal cloud storage

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1 hour ago, djdelarosa25 said:

 

I'm the video editor of our class, and the drives with the raw files are infected

so ask them to fucking sort out their computers

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I personally use 360 total security for a few years and never had an issue so far. I assume they are selling like all "free" anti-virus programs some of your private data to make money.

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4 hours ago, Teddy07 said:

I assume they are selling like all "free" anti-virus programs some of your private data to make money.

clamav doesn't.

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Windows Defender + Common Sense

 

I used to use Eset a while ago, that was good.

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