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Good anti virus software?

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As per title, whats a good one? I have tried a few of the "best recommended" but all are crap, too much CPU usage and one even was putting ads in all my ebay searches.
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I reckon windows defender is good enough
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jenko wrote:I reckon windows defender is good enough
can't use is as my windows cracked.
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I'm on win 10 crack use defender and update fine lol
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MS built the anti-crack into win7 defender and a few other various unrelated updates . I can update everything except those including anti-crack code.
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Ive never seen defender not work and i'd use it. Did they finally throw the off switch on free win 7 to 10 upgrades?

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vlad01 wrote:MS built the anti-crack into win7 defender and a few other various unrelated updates . I can update everything except those including anti-crack code.
Never had an issue with AVG :thumbup:
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I used to use AVG about 6 or so years ago but stopped as it was known to be a CPU hog, quite often using 100% CPU for no reason. No idea what its like now?

Is the free edition any good?
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antus wrote:Ive never seen defender not work and i'd use it. Did they finally throw the off switch on free win 7 to 10 upgrades?

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I think so. but why you'd want win 10 is beyond me? I used it over a year and I honestly think its the worst MS OS followed by 8 and 8.1. I nuked my work laptop and put 7 on it and its 100 fold better now.

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AVG went downhill, for customers who need the whole kit and caboodle I usually switch back and forth between Avast and Avira depending on which one has the least overhead at the time. Both will require annual free "renewal" and collect some stats for future development use, they usually have a bit of a go at up-selling but not required. Anything with all the "real time shields" is going slow the machine down big time, but its a lot safer for those people who just can't be trusted to exercise common sense.

If you don't need all that junk and want something less intrusive then ClamAV's Windows version ClamWin is fine. It does still have an email filter built in if you want that, and you can install ClamSentinel separately if you really want a filesystem filter, but if you're sensible you can just use it on demand for suspect files. I use ClamAV on the Linux servers for all email and it does a reasonable job, a few false positives sneak in here and there but very regular updates.
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