Antivirus question

Horizon81

I'm tempted to use free version of Avast. Seems to be AV and malware protection all in one? Or would I need Malwarebytes as well?

The paid for products seem to be full of features I'll never use and use more memory.

macman

Avast is fine. Use MBAM as an on-demand scanner as well when required.

bod1467

What macman says. That's exactly what I do (and how I have all the computers configured - desktop, my laptop, DD1 laptop, DD2 laptop).

frankie

My new dell desktop came with McaFee pre-installed. In the past I have always been happy with AVG and Avast so its something new for me to have a 'commercial' AV program. I am aware of some people saying these programs 'slow' down computers and have been considering the value of having McaFee installed.

Question - As my OS is Win 8, will it be better just to use defender and the Windows security? Or unload McaFee and use say AVG or Avast as mentioned above, and switch off Windows security?

bod1467

If you're happy with McAfee then there's no reason to stop using it ... except that you'll be nagged to renew the subscription at some point. In which case it makes sense to uninstall it now and put on something free (like AVG or Avast).

I can't comment on Defender in Win8, other than to say if you install another AV prog it (should) automatically disables itself.

Anselm

Is it worth buying the paid version of Avast? It's £19.99.

welshee

No.
it does what you want it to...unless you use P2P sites, the free is suffice.

Anselm

welshee wrote: »

No.
it does what you want it to...unless you use P2P sites, the free is suffice.

Ok thank you