- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Built in Windows is spot-on.
I hadn't heard of Microsoft Security Essentials. I just looked it up and it is designed for Win 7/8 so I thought about installing it but... though I am running Win 7 on this laptop, support for it stops in January so I will either upgrade to Win 10 (unlikely, unless Win 10 can run fast enough on very old hardware - Core 2 Duo 1.2 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM?) OR convert the machine to Linux. Meanwhile, I'll stick with Avast for extra protection.Neither Windows Defender nor Microsoft Security Essentials is sufficient on its own. Use them both together.
It's an unwritten rule that all computer questions on forums must degenerate into a Mac v Microsoft argument.
As a Mac user I find the concept of anti-virus very quaint.
As a Linux user I find the concept of an operating system with proprietary software using proprietary hardware, propietary interfaces, etc. very quaint.It's an unwritten rule that all computer questions on forums must degenerate into a Mac v Microsoft argument.
As a Mac user I find the concept of anti-virus very quaint.
I stare menacingly at the front facing camera.
Windows Defender. I also use Malwarebytes once in a blue moon.