Windows Defender AV

   / Windows Defender AV #21  
Free Avast is not bad
Couple months ago I spent several hours getting rid of Avast on a neighbor's laptop. Apparently there was some sort of incompatibility issue with Win 10 on one of the updates causing it to hog 90+% of system resources. Had to d/l some special removal tool that needed to be run in safe mode (which is a PITA to launch in 10) to finally get rid of it.
Oh and everything is free. All the software, the office suite the audio, photo, and video editing all of it is free. And Linux is more stable than Windows.
Linux might have been more stable than Windows once upon a time, but we're not running Win98 or its predecessors anymore. I've had zero system crashes with XP or anything newer.
I've tried to like Linux. I can't. It's clunky, and too many operations require command-line instructions. More than once I've had to Google how to do something, the only responses were to give me some long, arcane line of text to enter without any explanation of what I was doing.
Even the "free" software is kinda rinky dink IMHO. I suppose for the price...
 
   / Windows Defender AV #22  
too many operations require command-line instructions. More than once I've had to Google how to do something, the only responses were to give me some long, arcane line of text to enter without any explanation of what I was doing.
The command line requirement is part of why it is Malware proof
I too have noticed that the Linux community ( such as it is) tends to respond to queries with what one might easily interpret as snotty imponderable and arcane responses.
Honestly I think they do it deliberately just to keep the rubes away.
I have managed to get past that nonsense and can get pretty much anything I need done
 
   / Windows Defender AV #25  
What do you think about Norton antivirus? I'm not really a computer gig, so I don't really know how to use all those staff. So, I have Norton installed, and I think it works ok. How can I see if it indeed protects my Windows or not?
Save your money and install Windows Security Essentials. Norton, Avast and all the others suck up a large amount of system resources which slows your system down and cause other conflicts in a lot of cases.
I have a customer that has stuck with Avast for years. He had one computer that was unresponsive for 4 or 5 minutes when it was booted up and he couldn't figure out why. A look at the system resource monitor showed it was Avast doing something for that period of time. I tried disabling it, still the same problem. I had to completely uninstall Avast to get the system to boot and be usable immediately. Installed WSE and no problems since.
 
   / Windows Defender AV #26  
A look at the system resource monitor showed it was Avast doing something for that period of time. I tried disabling it, still the same problem. I had to completely uninstall Avast to get the system to boot and be usable immediately. Installed WSE and no problems since.
Most AV programs won't let you disable them, the reasoning being that if you can disable it then so can a piece of malware. About the best you can do is to remove it from the auto-start and reboot, even that can be more easily said than done.
I suppose that's a good thing, but not when a program becomes a resource hog.
 
   / Windows Defender AV #27  
I use Webroot both at our corporations and at home. No issues and yet to have a computer become disabled due to the fact of infection or crypto takeover.
 
   / Windows Defender AV #28  
Save your money and install Windows Security Essentials. Norton, Avast and all the others suck up a large amount of system resources ...
Is that an updated name for the Microsoft Security Essentials on my Win7 laptop? Whatever it is, it still gets daily updates from MS. It's all I've run for a long time now.

No security incidents here for many years and nothing listed in the MSE quarantine. I think the uBlock Origin screens out any dangerous link.

In the past I've run Avast without problems. But long ago, Norton and McAfee hogged the resources as you described plus were difficult to remove.
 
   / Windows Defender AV #29  
Is that an updated name for the Microsoft Security Essentials on my Win7 laptop? Whatever it is, it still gets daily updates from MS. It's all I've run for a long time now.

No security incidents here for many years and nothing listed in the MSE quarantine. I think the uBlock Origin screens out any dangerous link.

In the past I've run Avast without problems. But long ago, Norton and McAfee hogged the resources as you described plus were difficult to remove.

MS Security Essentials is what I have been running on my Win7 machine since I built it in 2008, and have never had a problem. Of course, I think one's choices of websites one visits is a big factor in picking up nasty stuff.

Norton and McAfee are the worst antivirus packages out there. Like you say, they are horrible resource hogs and a pain in the ass to completely remove all traces of them.
 

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