Antivirus

[donutsweeper]

Forgot to ask this in my excitement about the new laptop, but does anyone have any advice about what's the best free antivirus out there? I used Avira on my old one but all the Doom and Gloom Buy Our Pro-Version popups got really annoying. I have an adblocker installed on my browsers and no coin, but a good antivirus is important too. The laptop came with McAfee installed but I remember hearing meh things about it so I'd like to switch to something that's recommended (and recommended by people who actually use it and not blog posts/articles of possibly being paid to say certain things nature).

What do you all use? Do you like it?

(Laptop is running Windows 10)

Comments

[methylviolet10b]

Another recommendation for Windows Defender here; it's part of Windows 10 and does a good job. For ad-blocking it depends on your browser. I know a lot of folks happy with AdBlock Plus on Firefox and Chrome; it's not fully available for Edge, if that's your preference.

Good luck!

[donutsweeper]

Thanks! It really does look like a good program, not sure why they also included McAfee as well, except for the chance to possible sell a pro version to people?

[methylviolet10b]

A lot of OEM boxes come that way because of licensing/marketing deals. It should be fairly straightforward to turn off the bundled McAfee and get Defender going again.

[donutsweeper]

Probably? A quick look confused me but I probably just need to actually try to figure it out when I've actually got some brains that are awake and working.