Best Protection for Laptop

nikki_angel

Hi All,

We currently have Avast! as our protection on our laptop but I don't know if it is the best we could have. Without paying that is!!

Can anyone recommend the best software that we should be using to get good all round protection from, well, anything bad really.

Thanks in advance.

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Marty_J

Avast is OK. I think Avira AntiVir is probably better, but there's no need to fix it if it isn't broken. You should probably add some malware protection, such as Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.

All the above assumes you're using Windows of course.

nikki_angel

I have the Malwarebytes on my system now following a post I done on here yesterday so that's good!

Thanks for the help

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nikki_angel wrote: »

We currently have Avast! as our protection on our laptop but I don't know if it is the best we could have.

Avast is okay. I'd say it was second best to Avira AntiVir but not by much.

I'd suggest the following:

Anti-virus - Avira AntiVir
Anti-malware - Malwarebytes
Anti-spyware - SUPERAntiSpyware

The anti-virus runs all the time and the anti-spyware and anti-malware are on demand i.e. you manually start a scan.

Ensure the PC is patched properly by visiting http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

Finally ensure you've got a firewall, XP / Vista's are fine.

For completeness you could download and run CCleaner then do a defrag.