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    I've had good luck with Avast. Started off with the free, but bumped up to the paid version the last few years just for the heck of it. The free version seemed to work well, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TFOGGER View Post
    I've used AVG free and Avast free. Both seem to work well, both will poke you periodically to upgrade to their paid product, but nothing horribly intrusive. Avast seems to be a little less resource intensive, but neither really slows down a reasonably modern computer.
    AVG has been really annoying me on my home desktop/server for months now. I've had issue with Avast on the wife's computer false blocking lots of legitimate comms, like her work VPN, etc.

    Don't get me started on SEP on the work laptop. Worst part there is constantly having to turn off the network intrusion to allow my VM's network access - admin policy controlled so it re-enables itself periodically. Been getting false positives on legit file downloads too since they started blacklisting "unpopular downloads."
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    Quote Originally Posted by TFOGGER View Post
    I've used AVG free and Avast free. Both seem to work well, both will poke you periodically to upgrade to their paid product, but nothing horribly intrusive. Avast seems to be a little less resource intensive, but neither really slows down a reasonably modern computer.
    AVG has been really annoying me on my home desktop/server for months now. I've had issue with Avast on the wife's computer false blocking lots of legitimate comms, like her work VPN, etc.

    Don't get me started on SEP on the work laptop. Worst part there is constantly having to turn off the network intrusion to allow my VM's network access - admin policy controlled so it re-enables itself periodically. Been getting false positives on legit file downloads too since they started blacklisting "unpopular downloads."

    Neither AVG nor Avast (free) do well protecting against malware.

    I'm tempted to pay for Malwarebytes realtime, but they all have deficiencies...
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    Quote Originally Posted by brutal View Post
    AVG has been really annoying me on my home desktop/server for months now. I've had issue with Avast on the wife's computer false blocking lots of legitimate comms, like her work VPN, etc.

    Don't get me started on SEP on the work laptop. Worst part there is constantly having to turn off the network intrusion to allow my VM's network access - admin policy controlled so it re-enables itself periodically. Been getting false positives on legit file downloads too since they started blacklisting "unpopular downloads."

    Neither AVG nor Avast (free) do well protecting against malware.

    I'm tempted to pay for Malwarebytes realtime, but they all have deficiencies...
    I used to use AVG Free. I've just replaced it with Windows Defender.

    To be honest, most commercial AV isn't going to stop the type of malware that comes from not doing questionable shit on the internet these days anyway.

    *edit*

    Windows Defender will also detonate files in the cloud if it doesn't have it's hash in their DB. Which is good considering that's where most enterprise products are going these days (PAN's Traps and the like).
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    Windows 10 is spyware.

    Keep your data backed up on external storage. When the machine gets wonky, because it will regardless of whether it is infected or Microsoft decides to patch it with some delightful nag ware, dump the OS and load Linux.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
    Windows 10 is spyware.

    Keep your data backed up on external storage. When the machine gets wonky, because it will regardless of whether it is infected or Microsoft decides to patch it with some delightful nag ware, dump the OS and load Linux.
    But then he has to choose a distro and the argument that starts could cause someone to run around with a suicide vest of lit firecrackers on.
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