Markman Posted December 22, 2021 Report Share Posted December 22, 2021 Moved house and now have a sky broadband - so lost my old BT broadband one with free Mcafee - keep getting messages about renewing and with my C-19 I am too ill to think I used to use bullguard but do I need to pay anything (I don't mind) but never really got on with AVG free Main message I get is about unsecure provider or something but I seem to have windows defender running quick easy suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norn Iron Posted December 22, 2021 Report Share Posted December 22, 2021 Use the free Microsoft version that comes with Windows 10 or download able from their website. Windows Security. I have been using this and previous incarnation ever since the head lecturer at uni for computer sciences told me about it. This is all he uses. He gave me other reasons but in Janet and John speak, it's free, it's good for everyday folk and recommended by him! https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted December 27, 2021 Report Share Posted December 27, 2021 Yea to be honest the free Microsoft software is good enough for most people. That and make sure that User Access Control is set to require permission before doing any administrative changes (or better yet use a separate account that doesn’t have admin rights) and you’re unlikely to get many problems. Most viruses and the like are self inflicted on personal devices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted December 27, 2021 Report Share Posted December 27, 2021 Yeah, I'd echo the shout for the Windows software. Got a new laptop a few weeks ago so thought I'd give it a go before having to look elsewhere and so far it's been absolutely fine. On my old laptop I'd been using the free version of Avast and it slowed it down to a crawl at times, as well as constantly trying to get me to sign up for their paid product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted December 27, 2021 Report Share Posted December 27, 2021 ditto the defender comments,recently had my acer upgraded to ssd and was told not to put anything else on it.still as fast as when i collected it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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