donutsweeper: (Default)
donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2019-02-06 09:04 am

Antivirus

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)
methylviolet10b: (JWP 2015)

[personal profile] methylviolet10b 2019-02-08 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
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.