The antivirus software is always a shield ️ used in most computers to protect the computer against viruses from external software. Do you like using the free option or paid one?
Free or paid antivirus?
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I go with paid for that peace of mind.
Good thought, but what is the limitations that one can get from using a free antivirus?
It won't be 100% reliable. It let's some virus creep in.
But that is still better than having an antivirus software on your computer.
Free anti virus software is 100% useless!
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I use the free Windows Defender.
Defender gets a bad rep for being built in, but it actually does what it’s supposed to do.
I have seen people praise it more. Which is a great thing for once from MS.
A lot of the hate is from people who don't know a lot about antivirus software.
Majority of them are just following what others said and not like they even used it.
Who blindly follow pretty ads, yep.
There is an irony of how people who are too worried about their cybersecurity also know the least about it. Let’s go out of our way to do things that actually don’t do anything.
You're right about that. I was talking with one guy the other night and he was going on and on about cyber security issues but when I mentioned ordinary 2FA, he doesn't seem to know it.
I see people talk about turning on their VPN when they pay for stuff at home. They’re just hiding their credit card information from their ISP… who already has their credit card info.
They are just ignorant but thinking they are wise.
Well they just half ass did their research. They missed the part where it’s helpful of public wifi. Someone can sit there and get your credit card info that way. If someone’s doing that on your home network, a VPN is a bandaid to a different problem.
And when you try to teach such people what they don't know, they wouldn't wanna hear it thinking they know it all... Silly!
Paid Antivirus for me all the time. I have never used the free version.