Windows 10 Help / Info

[MarcB]

Father - in - Law has a new laptop and like most of teh older generation tech aint his thing.

Its a Lenovo V145 Laptop,15.6" FHD, AMD A6, 8GB DDR4 RA,256GB SSD,DVD-RW, Windows10 Pro.

Now im looking at getting some decent antivirus software for it but there is that many out there so im just wondering what would be the best to go with.

The selection I have seen is so far is

Bitdefender Antivirus Plus
Norton AntiVirus Plus
Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows
Malwarebytes
McAfee Total Protection
Sophos Home

Can anyone throw me in the correct direction here or does this come with Windows Defender and nothing above is needed.

 

[Pistachio]

Oooh an old fashioned antivirus software vote off!

I'll throw Avast in to the mix

 

[The Psychedelic Socialist]

I'd go with the built in Windows Defender and a decent ad-blocker

 

[MarcB]

Tried to give him my old MacBook Pro but he aint having it so bought a cheap laptop

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

I'd go with the built in Windows Defender and a decent ad-blocker

This.

Can't remember the last time I used dedicated AV software on Windows and my current PC was originally born around 2012.

 

[The Psychedelic Socialist]

This.

Can't remember the last time I used dedicated AV software on Windows and my current PC was originally born around 2012.

Most AV software now just feels worse than the Malware.

 

[Krarl]

All anti-virus software is shite, stick with win defender and tell him to stop downloading illicit pornos

 

[Krarl]

Also, the best Adblocker I've found is Ublock Origin

 

[davo172]

Norton 360

 

[Typhoon]

NOD32

 

[CrippsCorner]

Also, the best Adblocker I've found is Ublock Origin

Ghostery for me.

 

[Krarl]

Ghostery for me.

A lad at work uses that and rates it tbf

 

[CrippsCorner]

I started using it because the guys on The Verge use it... and they know their s**t!

 

[The Psychedelic Socialist]

Bit more work to get set-up, but PiHole's are the best adblocker bar none.

Blocks ads on your whole network and every device ; phones, tablets and desktops.

I've got one and I set one up for my parents a year ago and haven't had to touch it since.

 

[Darren S]

Yep - don’t bother with additional AV at all. Although you can still be caught out as such, I think user education is far more useful than weighing down your OS with additional layers of software checks and validation. It also makes it more difficult to assess what’s the core issue if you have connection problems, etc.

Think of AV packages as a speed limiter on your car. It’s all well and good setting it to a maximum of 70mph - you no longer get pulled over for speeding on the motorway. But it doesn’t in anyway stop you from doing 70 in a 30 Zone and still getting caught out.

It’s how you use the PC that protects you the most - a layer of software won’t make you immune from click-bait, payload attachments and clearly dodgy websites.

 

[MarcB]

Thanks for all your input gents.
I will get windows defender up and running and ditch the AV software.