Best anti-virus for Windows 10 ?

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  1. Underclocked

    Underclocked MDL Member

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    I use Avast free edition. Nags you a bit with ads but pretty solid performer in my experience.
     
  2. odiebugs1

    odiebugs1 MDL Expert

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    In the top 5 range.
     
  3. Michaela Joy

    Michaela Joy MDL Crazy Lady

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    Myself I don't use real-time scanning, but I do run malwarebytes free pretty much every day.

    It seems to work well, and it already caught a piece of nasty ransom-ware.
     
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  4. naxal

    naxal MDL Member

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    Kaspersky is pretty cheap here in India.. Around USD 7 for one year subscription hence I use that.. Works good for their antivirus, but the internet security does slow down the system a lot..
     
  5. BubuXP

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    #45 BubuXP, Nov 16, 2015
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  6. kopitaneskita

    kopitaneskita MDL Member

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    both chinese spy tools.
     
  7. k3lt

    k3lt MDL Member

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    ESET Smart Security 9 + Malwarebytes is my vote.
     
  8. Valiosa

    Valiosa MDL Novice

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    Windows defender and malwarebytes antimalware free are good here.
     
  9. mindphasar

    mindphasar MDL Novice

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    malwarebytes antimalware or Emsisoft Emergency Kit Freeware Edition
     
  10. ganons

    ganons MDL Junior Member

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    Using NOD32 for a good few years
     
  11. scaramonga

    scaramonga MDL Senior Member

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    Common sense.
     
  12. Feelgood

    Feelgood MDL Novice

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    Block avastui.exe in your Firewall, TCP outgoing. No ads anymore, updates and definitions still fully functional...
     
  13. antonio8909

    antonio8909 MDL Guru

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    The best antivirus is you! Just dont visit strange websites or download files with a dubious origin
     
  14. Garbellano

    Garbellano MDL Addicted

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    Linux/MacOS
     
  15. WaltC

    WaltC MDL Addicted

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    Defender is best...been around for a long, long time and has handled all of my machines since before Microsoft bought the company, prior to it becoming Microsoft Security Essentials. It has the lightest resource footprint and is by far the least invasive of them all. Instantly caught and eradicated every nasty that's come my way and is so good and precise at what it does that I cannot recall the last time it gave me a false positive--that alone is worth its weight in gold. Don't discount it just because you don't have to pay for it--because if Microsoft can't police Windows, nobody else can, either.
     
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  16. foo3495

    foo3495 MDL Senior Member

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    i Have been using MSE since xp and tell customers that's all they need,
    now defender since w8 that's all i say now,
    i am using defender now with premium malwarebyte's (both running B/R) on jobs done here,
    i do a lot of cleanups and i find comps are full of crap with norton,etc etc etc on.
    i for sure would not pay for an antivirus..
     
  17. Muerto

    Muerto MDL Debugger

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    It depends on what creepy pr0n you want to look at.

    I've used MS antivirus since it was first released from Windows Live Onecare, to Security Essentials to Windows Defender, this with the added bonus of Malwarebyte's alongside MS EMET.

    I've never had a single malware infection apart from educational purposes when studying malicious code.
     
  18. uffbros

    uffbros MDL Senior Member

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    Your kidding me...Right?? Windows Defender is absolutely garbage...Do a google search and participate in a few forums you will find this out. Unbelievable!!!!!!!!
     
  19. SpeedDream

    SpeedDream MDL Addicted

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    eset or kaspersky for a regular user? I don't use any I work removing viruses If I see anything weird I just use scanners like jrt adwcleaner mbam or hitman pro
     
  20. Feelgood

    Feelgood MDL Novice

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    Don´t waste too much time eliminating malware, block the streets they are riding on straight home to your machines:
    Java Script, Java, Flash, Scripting in Adobe Reader and other applications...

    So it´s NoScript, Adblocker, Ghostery, restricting (or deleting) Flash and Java in browsers and restricting the use of scripting in pdfs.
    An of course: NO dumb clicking on unknown EXEs and mail attachments.
    This way you never even will see any malware for the rest of your life. If you´re a brave one you even can uninstall all AVs then.