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Malwarebytes is the only other protection app that I know of that you can work along with another Anti-Virus/Malware app. The way I understand it is they work in completely different ways, so they do not interfere with each other.
Malwarebytes pro IMHO is well worth the price you pay for it.
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Malwarebytes pro IMHO is well worth the price you pay for it.
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Bob (Jazzmammal),
I think you've offered some very good advice. I very reluctabtly upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 two years ago. Now, I am very happy I did.
I can't speak with any authority about the technical IT issues you've commented on, but I think it's common knowledge that Win 10, when consistently updated, is the safest and fastest Windows OS ever. Most people are simply resistant to change by human nature. Familiarity is a warm and fuzzy thing, ya know! But to them, I would suggest you would get that same warm and fuzzy after a few months on Win 10.
I'm still using Chrome but plan on going to Edge real soon. I'll take your word about the advantages of the OS and web browser integration - makes sense. My main issue is that Chrome is becoming very invasive.
Enough of my blabbering. Thanks for all the good info you give us on these matters.
Alan
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I shy away from Chrome for the same reason why I use StartPage or DuckDuckGo instead of Google. IMO it's voluntary spyware.
Now I wouldn't mind them tracking me and selling the information if they would give me 20% of the take.
I know, if it's free, you are the product, not the customer. But after some of the abuses I've read about data collection on PC Mag, CNet and other pubs, I decided to minimize what they know about me.
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I have been paying attention to his thread being an Avast free user. and wondering if I was missing something with Windows Defender.
The UK computer mag PC Pro has its front cover heading this month with Dump Windows Defender now. They give it a high false positive rating of 3.1% They seem to think it affects computer performance as well and award it one star.
Labs winner is Kaspersky (paid) and best free they say is Panda free antivirus.
I suppose at end of day it boils down as to what you feel works for you. I won't be changing from Avast to Panda at the moment, though Avast got a reasonable rating but too many pop ups they say which I totally agree with.
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I have been using Eset NOD32 AV literally for YEARS. I'm not going to say what the results have been out of fear that something goes awry. But the number "one" has a big part to do with my story. I also have Win Defender running along side NOD32 because if on occasion one misses something the other picks it up.
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I have been watching this thread with some interest for some time. Years ago Defender was not ready. At least in a corporate sense. But, I have been out of the protection world for a few years now and the game changes in weeks.
What is important is that you have protection. (Be it Saturday night for young folk. Or any time on your computer.) What is critical is you have only one fire wall (if you have two which has the correct rules). When it comes to a virus defence two good virus protection platforms may help but often you will only increase the number of false positives and/or slow your systems down,
At least be careful where you go and what you download. I reckon 80% of the folk I help these days have installed something “free” and got more than they thought. (This can also happen with free VST downloads (and even some not free)). A lot of free stuff comes with unwanted add ons (nuffin comes for nuffin so let’s all look on the bright side of ....j.
Be careful, get protection (even Defender) but most importantly as my mum (mom for those that don’t understand mum) don’t look at things you should not. As my wife says if you look don’t touch. Only take freebies from folk you know and can trust.
Last but not least. Keep backups of everything you can’t get elsewhere easily. (20+ years ago I had a chap (doing his doctorate) who had almost finished his book on mathematical principles come to me for advice. “My internal disc drive makes funny noises” he said. I said “back up onto floppy all your critical data.” A day or so later he came to me with foam coming from his lips “I’ve lost my whole bloody book. I backed up Word (just released) and backed up MS DOS (the operating system) But it was important I keep my book private”. My response was “it is now very private. No one can get it”.
Back up your music into different places. Onto external systems if at all possible.
My experiences and thoughts
Tony
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I'm with you on the backup advice Tony. I found out the hard way. Took my PC in for a very much needed upgrade last year. The only thing I didn't have to change was my second drive (drive D). I took it home and turned it on. Had a look at the D drive... all that I had on there were files... pictures, documents and the like. No program files. Almost started to cry when I saw that the guy formatted the D drive. Every picture I had taken in ten years were gone. All my music stuff was gone. Actually, my whole life was on there. I'm certainly not going to put any blame or show any anger towards the guy. If I let stuff lay on that drive for as long as I did without backing it up then it's my bad. I did learn from it. I now have a Seagate 3 TB external drive ($100) and it takes a half second to plug it in and another second to transfer copies of my stuff over to it. It also takes about 5 minutes to burn all this stuff onto a CD for added protection. Never again. 
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If you are using Windows, you can download ThinkToy from Microsoft. It can synchronize data files from your C drive to an external with a couple of mouse clicks.
At the end of a session, run it, and it will see which files have been either added or changed on the C drive and make the adjustments on the external drive. It also puts overwritten files in the recycle bin.
Handy app.
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