Defender is great. And can be used as a centrally managed solution with the correct MS licensing.
It also has Application Guard (that appears to be part of Edge but is a Defender product). It uses a Hyper-V container to run the Edge browser in so that it's sandboxed. useful for any higher risk web surfing.
Enable hardware-based isolation for Microsoft Edge (Windows) - Windows security | Microsoft Docs
I believe it's not available for Windoze 10 Home. But is for Windows 11.
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Previously on "How to choose a best antivirus for my pc?"
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I leave most of it to MS Essentials, but I bought a Malwarebytes licence years ago so have that on the PCs as well. A bit belt and braces, but it's pretty much invisible and is very good at closing off "interesting" websites (most of which spawn off other rather more legitimate ones). Stopped using Avast when it was both taking up a lot of resources (mostly disk traffic) and still letting (admittedly minor) stuff through.
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Originally posted by eek View Post
It's a VM - so it won't be interacting for many users.
Knowing what Simon is doing though he's doing a pile of things in a very different way to how I do things but hey that's his decision and I don't have time to explain why my structure is very different.
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Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
+1 for this
Make sure your router is correctly set up to not allow random traffic in (I used to do IP sniffing back in the day for giggles and the number of companies who had completely open networks was shocking) and don't click that tempting picture of jiggly boobs and you should be fine.
Knowing what Simon is doing though he's doing a pile of things in a very different way to how I do things but hey that's his decision and I don't have time to explain why my structure is very different.
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Originally posted by eek View Post
You don't need an AV on a computer in this day and age, windows defender is more than good enough.
Make sure your router is correctly set up to not allow random traffic in (I used to do IP sniffing back in the day for giggles and the number of companies who had completely open networks was shocking) and don't click that tempting picture of jiggly boobs and you should be fine.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostIs AVAST still the go to AV for Windows?
Moved my virtual machine to new hardware and all of a sudden its running dog slow and Avast seems to be the cause
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Is AVAST still the go to AV for Windows?
Moved my virtual machine to new hardware and all of a sudden its running dog slow and Avast seems to be the cause
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Or maybe the crown princess latifa 3rd is using your PC to spam the rest of us, how would you know if you don't ever check it.
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I have not used an antivirus software in 10 yrs.
Maybe I am boring and don't visit dodgy websites.
I use a Mac ....... and also use Virtual machine for my downloads
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I recommend you the Avast for the free antivirus, and the kaspersky for the paid antivirus.
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I tried AVG but the free one doesn't have web protection, ended up with Avast. Got it on mac & phone now too. Worth having as it busted Vuze trying to install some spyware bar on the mac.
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