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I have used many of the discussed AV and AM applications, a long list of free/shareware/$$$ and the Windows Defender has been the least painful of all of them. I do install MalwareBytes as an occasional reality check, but never leave it running. The things that I do consistently and admonish all of my users and friends about are to set the browser security and safety settings as high as practical, learn how to correctly use the firewall and never login as an administrator for general computing work. Using a restricted access account for day to day activity eliminates about 99% of the headaches I read and hear about, and if your version of the operating system makes it hard to do user access restriction, upgrade to a version that will. What's your time worth?
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 08:44 AM
petraip said:
I have used many of the discussed AV and AM applications, a long list of free/shareware/$$$ and the Windows Defender has been the least painful of all of them. I do install MalwareBytes as an occasional reality check, but never leave it running. The things that I do consistently and admonish all of my users and friends about are to set the browser security and safety settings as high as practical, learn how to correctly use the firewall and never login as an administrator for general computing work. Using a restricted access account for day to day activity eliminates about 99% of the headaches I read and hear about, and if your version of the operating system makes it hard to do user access restriction, upgrade to a version that will. What's your time worth?
