Posted January 21, 2018 So I've been looking for an anti virus/malware program and was wondering if any of you had recommendations? PCMag recommends Bitdefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, Norton, and Webroot. I'm leaning towards purchasing McAfee since it will cover my 2 PCs, Laptop, and 2 phones with a single subscription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 21, 2018 Malwarebytes MSE any free A/V Norton is bloated, do not trust PCMag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 21, 2018 Do not buy McAfee That company went the way of being a virus itself. Basically as long as you are smart on the internet all you need is Windows Defender and an ad blocker. Anti-virus on smartphones does literally nothing Laptop: 2019 16" MacBook Pro i7, 512GB, 5300M 4GB, 16GB DDR4 | Phone: iPhone 13 Pro Max 128GB | Wearables: Apple Watch SE | Car: 2007 Ford Taurus SE | CPU: R7 5700X | Mobo: ASRock B450M Pro4 | RAM: 32GB 3200 | GPU: ASRock RX 5700 8GB | Case: Apple PowerMac G5 | OS: Win 11 | Storage: 1TB Crucial P3 NVME SSD, 1TB PNY CS900, & 4TB WD Blue HDD | PSU: Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 600W | Display: LG 27GL83A-B 1440p @ 144Hz, Dell S2719DGF 1440p @144Hz | Cooling: Wraith Prism | Keyboard: G610 Orion Cherry MX Brown | Mouse: G305 | Audio: Audio Technica ATH-M50X & Blue Snowball | Server: 2018 Core i3 Mac mini, 128GB SSD, Intel UHD 630, 16GB DDR4 | Storage: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad (6TB WD Blue HDD, 12TB Seagate Barracuda, 1TB Crucial SSD, 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 21, 2018 >Windows Defender - Active protection and system scans >Malwarebytes - System scans >Some common sense - Don't run an .exe when you thought you were downloading an .mp3 Most anti-virus programs actually use the same or similar sets of repositories for identifying threats, so quite a bit of choosing one is just down to the amount of bloat and how the application behaves as most will pick up the same things during a scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 21, 2018 I have Norton. Works fine. And I use Windows defender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 21, 2018 Author Thanks, I haven't kept up with the virus protection world. Fairly certain I have windows defender and I'll pick up Malwarebytes. 10 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said: Anti-virus on smartphones does literally nothing I am moderately surprised that there are not viruses for smartphones yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said: >Windows Defender - Active protection and system scans >Malwarebytes - System scans >Some common sense - Don't run an .exe when you thought you were downloading an .mp3 Most anti-virus programs actually use the same or similar sets of repositories for identifying threats, so quite a bit of choosing one is just down to the amount of bloat and how the application behaves as most will pick up the same things during a scan. Having adblock install on browser helps alot, especially for less tech savy people. Window defender on window 10 works quite well. On the phone maybe try to use firefox focus? It quite light browser that block ad/trackers and most of annoying popup ads is blocked. Just beware what app you have installed and check apps permissions. I mean i never really used any antivirus like Norton, Avast, Bitdefender as i found them keep giving me false positive and alot of random popup and hog up resources. The only program i run is malwarebtyes with lifetime licensee which I brought long time ago. It really lightweight and sit in background i never really notice it, plus it 3.0 version it comes with bunch of other protection from their other suite which is dope, like exploit detection especially when you going through alot of PDF/word docs for uni. Magical Pineapples