Which AV do you use?

ChilliBob

Hey guys,
I used to do this sort of thing for a living a loooong time ago, but I feel quite out of the loop now! I used to use Kaspersky, but then switched to Avast, which I've been using for a while. What bugs me is the whole suggestions it makes, and then you're unable to do any of them with the free version.. and it classes your machine as 'Critical'. 

So yeah, what do you use? Ideally free, but I don't mind paying a bit if it's decent. If it was multi machine and I could use it on my folks PC that would be a bonus.

Thoughts much appreciated. I'm coming from the days of Kaspersky and MalwareBytes being the daddy (probably about 10 years ago plus now!)

powerful_Rogue

Widows defender.

DE_612183

WD me as well - why use anything else?

Vitor

Yep, Windows Defender with all protective settings 'on'. Plus Edge similarly configured to minimise risk.

Emmia

Also the bundled Windows Defender 

ChilliBob

Blimey, quite conclusive. See back in the day anything bundled in, like Defender, was shown to be terrible! Interesting!

flaneurs_lobster

Yep WD, plus a bit of (free) Malwarebytes on-demand scanning because why not.

Neil49

flaneurs_lobster said:

Yep WD, plus a bit of (free) Malwarebytes on-demand scanning because why not.

Same for me. 

ChilliBob

Just installed and did an Mbam scan, all good. I'll look into defender again then, the nag screens of Avast are a bit irritating 

Newcad

flaneurs_lobster said:

Yep WD, plus a bit of (free) Malwarebytes on-demand scanning because why not.

Agree, WD plus a weekly scan with Malwarebytes Free version.

Or run Malwarebytes Pro alongside WD, it's designed so both can run in real time together without clashing, and many users do that.

Add Malwarebytes Browser Guard (it's free) to the above to give a extra layer of in-browser protection and you are then well covered. https://www.malwarebytes.com/browserguard

HonestJohn

I use Bitdefender. About £20 a year from Amazon for 5 devices but they do offers which you can stack. Devices can be a mobile. I have been told that Windows Defender is great if you do nothing dodgy but you won't know that until it is too late.