







Personally I wouldn't bother. There is good free antivirus software available i.e. Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials etc., and the inbuilt Windows firewall is fine when coupled with a hardware firewall (inbuilt into nearly all routers nowadays). Other than this I'd suggest using Firefox with Adblock Plus, scanning with Malwarebytes every so often and ensuring your PC is fully updated with ...
If you are using Windows as your OS, as long as it's Windows 11 then Microsoft's own antivirus and security is perfectly adequate along with whatever your browser adds in. No need to pay for anything and suggest you remove Norton and all its remnants as soon as possible, guides for a full uninstall are available online.
Malwarebyres Antimalware works differently from a 'traditional' AntiVirus and is specifically designed to play nicely with Windows Security/Defender and give an extra layer of protection. (And yes MB's own advertising calls it an Antivirus, but the marketing people don't care abour being correct, only about selling).
What about installing free AVAST in addition to windows defender, free version of Malwarebyte and run it manually ? In the past I have done that. The only annoying thing with AVAST is you keep getting annoying message or threatening message regarding your security risk and ask you to upgrade it to the paid version.
The McAfee AV protection for my laptop that I got free a few years back is now due for renewal. Recent years it was 29.99 now gone up to 59.99.
I've just bought a new Windows 10 laptop. I read Martin's article 'Free Antivirus Software' and tried to install Avast.
I am using Bitdefender free and find that it is way too slow (it takes a good 2 hours to scan my 1Tb SSD) What is the current best free antivirus that is…
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