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Good free PC malware/antivirus app? - Jerry® - 03-09-2022
Bought my friends gaming laptop and I haven’t used a PC in 20 years. Is there a good free anti-malware/antivirus app? It’s running Windows 10 home.
Re: Good free PC malware/antivirus app? - kj - 03-09-2022
Just use the windows built-in antivirus if you are going to use it normally.
Re: Good free PC malware/antivirus app? - Acer - 03-09-2022
I use free Superantispyware and the free version of Malwarebytes to supplement Windows Defender. They pick up adware trackers and the like, not just traditional viruses. Those two seem to overlap in what they detect, so one is probably sufficient. Neither is resource intensive.
Re: Good free PC malware/antivirus app? - S. Pupp - 03-09-2022
The free version of BitDefender has good ratings. I used it for a while (until upgrading to the full version).
Re: Good free PC malware/antivirus app? - Filliam H. Muffman - 03-10-2022
Malwarebytes free is what I thought of first but others had slightly higher ratings the last time I did an exhaustive search. From a post three months ago.
The best recent results:
Avast - https: //www.avast.com/en-us/free-antivirus-download
AVG - https: //www.avg.com/en-us/free-antivirus-download
MalwareBytes - https: //www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download
Panda - https: //www.pandasecurity.com/en/homeusers/free-antivirus/
Trend Micro - https: //www.trendmicro.com/en_us/forHome/products/housecall.html