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I have been slammed with building computers the past few weeks. Sadly, I practically get paid with meatballs as most people want a super cheap web surfing pc and are on a fixed income (or are just really cheap). I let their machines run all night and update everything and I usually throw on virus protection (avg free) firefox or chrome, restore points and a few other things that they may enjoy. I noticed that Avg is now calling their protection "zen". The last few years of putting Avg on peoples computers as well as my own rigs, I am getting annoyed with Avgs pop ups during movies, ads wanting me to upgrade or 20 different options to scan my emails and everything else. I have people calling me asking what they should do when all this crap pops up. Is there another free program that will scan for virus and malware with out a lot of user input? I also use spybot and malware bytes to fix peoples gummed up computers but I don't usually put those on for other people unless they are click happy, interweb trouble. I would love a simple virus protection I can put on that basically runs itself for older folks or those that are computer illiterate. I was reading up on Panda scan and a few others. Any suggestions?
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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How about for me? Is that also good for a semi tech guy?
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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MSE works OK. I used it for a little while and didn't get any viruses. It will give you an occasional error in your Event Viewer but if you didn't look you wouldn't know about it. My sister has AVG licensed version and she was getting popups until she enabled Tray Notifications and disabled them again. My AVG lost the setting too and I enabled the notifications, unchecked all of the boxes and hit apply then disabled all notifications again to fix it. If you watch NewEgg you can get AVG for free like I did. I got a two year license for three PCs for $40 and a $40 rebate = free! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832620127&cm_re=avg-_-32-620-127-_-Product
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/21 05:42:50
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Ive always used superantispyware and malwarebytes. Ive never had anything worse than tracking cookies. The key is to have common sense when browsing the internet which most people dont have.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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Avast! + MBAM = good free protection. ~Fus
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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I have to agree with Z, MSE has worked well for me and the wife, one thing i do like about Win10 is the integration of Defender, if nothing else it avoids confusion for some. as posted above, the key is "use common sense" especially when opening emails from people who have been attacked and don't know it they usually have titles like "Hey You" or "Whats up?" or "check this out" etc. but these can be identified in the preview as a link or any attachments if you don't know its coming, don't know who its from, don't open it! and most of all, banks and financial institutions NEVER ask for info through emails! bcool
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/24 18:35:09
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Windows Defender has one more level of protection than MSE, and they have stepped it up. No, it's not the best AV, but it's significantly improved as a free AV. If you go with Defender (or any AV for that matter), I suggest also using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (free or better yet, paid).
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/24 19:53:14
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NazcaC2 Windows Defender has one more level of protection than MSE, and they have stepped it up. No, it's not the best AV, but it's significantly improved as a free AV. If you go with Defender (or any AV for that matter), I suggest also using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (free or better yet, paid).
Defender was integrated into MSE with the release of Win10
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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I try to stay neutral when offering windows 10 but after about 2 minutes of them telling me how much it spys on them among other things, they want 7 installed. One person so far has requested windows 10 and just recently, they asked me to switch it to 7. I just tried Bit defender buy I didn't want to register it after 30 days. Gonna try MSE now..
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/24 20:03:30
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agent8 I try to stay neutral when offering windows 10 but after about 2 minutes of them telling me how much it spys on them among other things, they want 7 installed. One person so far has requested windows 10 and just recently, they asked me to switch it to 7. I just tried Bit defender buy I didn't want to register it after 30 days. Gonna try MSE now..
Cant blame them at all, I was just pointing it out. It is ONE of the things I do like about 10. I am still on the fence myself, looking for the greenest grass! Still on Win7 , but MSE has served me well for many years
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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That's correct, pgcmoore. I'm just stating the advantage Defender has over MSE. The OP didn't state for a specific OS. But, I agree with you.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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Fiius Avast! + MBAM = good free protection. ~Fus
Avast + Malwarebytes + Ccleaner= so good so far for me.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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I always put Microsoft Security Essentials on my builds for people, it's fine and really no complaints so far.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/27 14:09:13
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krane I always put Microsoft Security Essentials on my builds for people, it's fine and really no complaints so far.
That's exactly what I did and called it good. I may try it one one of my own systems to see. Nothing worse than having a stupid square pop up from avg while I am watching something.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/29 18:32:35
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It's not the best but it's better than nothing. There are much better free solutions.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/30 02:31:59
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An opinion doesn't make it invalid, lol.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/30 11:11:07
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I still use and love my Norton Security. =)
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/30 13:44:36
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Me too. Pair it up with Malwarebytes Anti-spyware (paid) and you'll be all set.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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XrayMan I still use and love my Norton Security. =)
I use Norton 360, but I install MSE on my builds for others that don't want to pay for virus protection.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
2015/08/30 16:57:28
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Same. Either MSE/Defender or AVG Free.
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Re: Looking for the best noob antivirus that's free
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