Light but effective free virus protection. What do you use?

Hey, this is more in the sense of minimising system strain to improve performance of an old laptop during Ableton use.

What do you use? I use AVG free but I'm considering swapping to something even lighter which serves purely as a web protection thing.

Cheers

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The stock Windows 'Security Center' seems to do a fine job these days.

  On 2/24/2018 at 6:35 PM, manmower said:

The stock Windows 'Security Center' seems to do a fine job these days.

Surprisingly, yes.

I use AVG (paid, but the free is good). 

I've read you shouldn't use avast if you also use CCleaner, but I forget why. Some backdoor thing hackers found last year I think. Probably patched already. :shrugs:

there's no virus anymore... that's so 80's...

windows defender is enough unless you're lurking into really dark places...

btw, every virus/malware i got from warez and alikes was pretty easy to detect in windows task manager. there's always some weird file or files running. right clicked those files, open file location, took note of the directories of said files and then i just entered windows in safe mode, deleted those files and voilá, reset and new...

Cheers! I'll probably just uninstall avg and use Windows stock stuff then. I was unsure if they were good enough.

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I use a mac.

But basically I have heard that Windows Defender is the only decent one of all AV products, even if you pay. In general just be careful about what sites you visit and what files you open. It seems operating system security has gotten to the point where direct attacks against your computer are pretty rare unless you manually messed with configuration, disabled a firewall, opened some ports etc. OR it's a company computer and it's an important target for hackers.

I use Firefox and the NoScript browser addon which lets you enable scripts by domain, so for instance the first time you go on FB you need to tell it to trust stuff from facebook.com and whatever else the site needs, and then you can always be sure that no random unknown shit gets executed. It's sometimes a hassle when a website uses five million different domains, but in these cases you can just allow all temporarily if you trust the site itself. It's pretty good because it lets you disable all the stupid ad domains and generally makes things more easy on your computer.

I would definitely not try to mess with virus files on my own. Yeah they might be stupid shit that just needs to be deleted, but in recent years the hackers have got hold of NSA level exploits, rootkits and stuff like that which basically tricks your system into not seeing them. It's not possible to have 100% protection, but just play it safe and enable 2-factor authentication on important stuff like e-mail and banking etc.