Do you use your phone's own free internet security or pay for it? If so which do you buy? I have a samsung S6, windows 10 laptop and ipad and haven't purchased security.
Do You Buy Security for Phone and Computers?
spring89 on 30/11/2018 - 15:32
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Not really, it's the one AV that malware is guaranteed to beat now that it's deployed to every Windows computer.
For consumer use, lots of free antivirus options, including as jaybot mentioned, Windows' own built-in antivirus. Some good ones off the top of my head: Avast, AVG, Avira. Really can't go wrong using any of the bigger well-known names, and exercising normal internet safety care.
I exercise common sense
but sometimes you just go ahead and click it when getting desperate
only if i'm baited by a bargain
how was I supposed to know the website offering hardcore goat on goat action wasn't legit?
Unfortunately common sense isn't a great defense.
portableapps.com has a link to both spybot search and destroy and clamwin, and i run both from a usb stick. i always manage to find something with them, often cookies or trackers.
phone i dont consider, i dont use my credit card on my phone, and its cheap enough to be replaced."Windows Defender rated highly on protection, detecting 100 percent of new and old malware, but lost points for performance, which measures how much an AV slows applications and websites; and usability, which counts false-positives or instances where AV wrongly identifies a file as malicious.
Windows Defender's performance rating was dragged down because it slowed the installation of frequently used applications more than the industry average, and wrongly detected 16 pieces of legitimate software compared with the industry average of four."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-heres-why-windows-de…
Security Products have very quickly become the snake oil of the IT industry.
If your windows defender and windows updates is current then you're as protected as you're gonna be. That's why the consumer grade stuff on the market is full of unrelated bloat (I'm looking at you Symantec) to try to differentiate themselves.
When it comes down to it… no security product is going to protect you from something truly brand new, or gerd-forbid something targeted specifically at you.
On Android… don't install every app that catches your fancy. You're more likely to get something semi-malicious from the app-store itself.
If you look at the paid products and the free products, the main difference is the extra bits. Like avast has that file shredder, registry clean up, etc. But the av system itself is the same throughout.
Ive used just the windows av and had no issues.
I do have mbam as back up if needed.
Whats also important is not clicking on random links. Not giving out your details willy nilly. Not using public wifi for anything private
Windows built in Anti-virus is really good and a lot of people don't know it.
That's all I use. Have an iphone and not aware of any AV apps that would have the right access to protect you. Would get something on Android.