antivirus for home PC - whatcha got? (1 Viewer)

[moleculo]

so whats the state-of-the-art anti-virus these days for home PC on a budget? 

TIA

 

[bagger]

I use Malwarebytes and Windows Defender.

 

[Shutout]

Macbook Pro. /thread. 

 

[Osaurus]

Been a Bitdefender user for years. Still working great.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Is that McAfee® guy still out there?

 

[NewlyRetired]

Love Avast.  it is free and easy to set up and provides multiple layers of protection.

 

[Courtjester]

Avast/Malwarebytes combo

 

[Big League Chew]

Zonealarm 

 

[Payne]

Used AVG for a long time, switched to Avast maybe two years ago. No issues and free.

 

[Tick]

I remember a comment here long ago.  This might be a direct quote:

"I had the Norton once.  It was worse than any virus ever created."

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

i pay for Malwarebytes. between that and the Windows Firewall, i feel pretty good about my protection.

Stopped using free versions of AVG and Avast about a year ago and went to Malwarebytes when that stuff @Walking Boot posted started to float around and i was getting bombarded with popups asking me to opt into stuff and pay for the pro version every five minutes.

 

[Mister CIA]

The built-in Windows Defender is more than enough.

Important files are kept on Google drive and One Drive.  If I have a problem, which has yet to happen, then I reinstall Windows and reload apps.