Avast and Malwarebytes

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Are these two probably the best two free programs to have installed for protection or can you recommend any others?
 
That is the combination I use. I tuned on hardened mode in Avast as well just to make extra sure and I haven't had any problems with them although if you are using a lot of really new programs you might have to add them as exclusions otherwise you might get a false positive. I did for a long time with the Discord client.

Apart from that it works really well.
 
Used to use Avast, but its become more and more bloated over the years and advertising more and more even in silent mode. The last straw for me was when I picked up a virus that Avast didn't spot but Windows defender did. Just been using Win defender and also running a scan with malware bytes every week or so nowadays.
 
Kaspersky (It's free as a Barclays customer) and Malware bytes. Lately I've been a little suspicious of Malware Byte's scans as it's all over in a minute. However, Kaspersky takes around 20 minutes.

Oh, here's the Mrs with some pieces of eight. ;)
 
Don't really need AV if your a careful clicker and have the correct stuff install on Chrome, ublock and noscript are my go to.
 
Defender and malwarebytes premium, $17.45 per annum for three PC's.

Windows 10 v1703 Creator edition.
 
Kaspersky (It's free as a Barclays customer) and Malware bytes. Lately I've been a little suspicious of Malware Byte's scans as it's all over in a minute. However, Kaspersky takes around 20 minutes.

Oh, here's the Mrs with some pieces of eight. ;)
you do realize the standard scan just check registry/documents/windows folder and RAM right?

the full scan checks all files...
 
Don't really need AV if your a careful clicker and have the correct stuff install on Chrome, ublock and noscript are my go to.
It's good just to be safe though, I use Defender with MalwareBytes although I used AVG Free about a month ago for over 5 years it felt like it was becoming way to bloated with ads.
 
It may be the norm now but back in the day mwb was just an addition to the usual sweep of software to check dodgy computers for clients/family. I guess its more of an AV and anti ransom suite now to offer 'multi-layered' protection! :D
 
Never used an AV for years, if something starts acting up I'll download and run a full AV scan as well as malware bytes but I haven't had a damaging virus since the early 2000's.
 
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