Which Antivirus?

Neil_Jones

RumRat said:

Why advise someone to pay anything? There really is no need........Unless the OP is considering delving into unknown depths of the interweb......

I think its only considerate to answer the OP's question.  If they're happy to pay for something that's up to them, though it does seem like such an oxymoron, asking that on a website like this.

RumRat

Highland76 said:

RumRat said:

Why advise someone to pay anything? There really is no need........Unless the OP is considering delving into unknown depths of the interweb......

Believe it or not, there are other paid AVs (which don't cost a small fortune) which perform better than Microsoft's Window defender - not that WD provides insufficient protection. Have a look at the independent test site av-comparatives to see for yourself:
https://www.av-comparatives.org/

I never knew that! 

Highland76

Glad to educate you Rumrat 👨‍🍼

Uxb1

Or they run a business, social club Treasurer etc part time on their computer and should there be any 'problems' over data security then having a paid for AV internet security suite might be a very sensible thing indeed to do.

JJ_Egan

Really it depends upon how comfortable each user is with a security suite .

That would also depend upon their web usage  and risky sites or not .

But in 2020  its the user clicking on email links that are providing the most trojans etc .

giraffe69

Whatever the best solution people tend to cling on to old ideas. For example Windows Defender was hopeless in the Windows 7 days and it was only with the advent of Windows 10 it became a viable solution. Norton may have problems now but is is often accused of being very bloated when this was more true perhaps 5 or 6 years ago.
If you are a fairly ordinary consumer on Windows 10 then Defender plus Malwarebytes seems enough and costs £0. It also helps as suggested above that not being trigger happy when clicking email links sent to you will probably also be a decent method of keeping your computer pest free.

neilmcl

giraffe69 said:

Whatever the best solution people tend to cling on to old ideas. For example Windows Defender was hopeless in the Windows 7 days and it was only with the advent of Windows 10 it became a viable solution. Norton may have problems now but is is often accused of being very bloated when this was more true perhaps 5 or 6 years ago.
If you are a fairly ordinary consumer on Windows 10 then Defender plus Malwarebytes seems enough and costs £0. It also helps as suggested above that not being trigger happy when clicking email links sent to you will probably also be a decent method of keeping your computer pest free.

Windows Defender (Or it's equivalent) was perfectly adequate under W7 too

dogmaryxx

neilmc said
Windows Defender (Or it's equivalent) was perfectly adequate under W7 too

Of course it was . 
It was the main reason that  

McAfee Norton Kaspersky Avira Avast Avg etc all went bust

dipsomaniac

Can't believe people are still considering paying for third party av for windows.  You wouldn't pay for it for a apple or android device. The os co are best placed to protect there own system imo

victor2

There are still a lot of people out there who believe that any AV they pay for must be better than a free one. I've known a few like that and soon appreciated it's easier to let them carry on believing than trying to encourage them to change their ways.