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: Antivirus, windows defender good enough?


asian_XL
09-11-2016, 03:34 AM
all I do with a PC is gaming, web browsing, e-banking, photoeditting, word processing, and porn collection management. A couple of my friends got their e-banking account hacked, no detail on their windows setup, all I know they are Windows 10. Do I need Norton, Kaspersky, or AVG antivirus, I just afraid the win defender isn't strong enough.

CRS
09-11-2016, 05:56 PM
Norton?

:fuckthatshit:

bobola
09-11-2016, 08:19 PM
Window defender + malwarebytes
Add some good ad block add on while you're at it.

Unless you go to tons of shady site, these should be enough.

underscore
09-11-2016, 10:33 PM
Do I need Norton, Kaspersky, or AVG antivirus

Last I checked those were all bloated piles of junk. My go-to for years has been Windows Defender/MSE, Malwarebytes and Spybot 1.6.2. Keep your software up to date (Java, flash, etc), do regular scans, don't open sketchy emails and you should be okay.

SkinnyPupp
09-11-2016, 11:44 PM
As long as you're not doing a bunch of movie, video game, and porn piracy on easily accessed sites you should be fine with just defender. If you do some of that at least add malware bytes.

asian_XL
09-12-2016, 04:59 AM
people have been saying never install 2 antivirus or 2 anti-malware, is it true?
I will try malware bytes first.

SkinnyPupp
09-12-2016, 06:54 AM
Don't run two active scanners at the same time, no

Reeyal
09-12-2016, 08:34 AM
I use Comodo for many many years now, and it's been working OK for me. It doesn't have bloated ware like AVG, Norton, and McAfee.

I also manually run MalwareBytes once in a while.

If you stay away from shady websites and applications/software, you're really OK.

Urrtoast
09-12-2016, 09:28 AM
Use this
Highly recommended and light on system resources.
https://www.avast.com/en-ca/index