I have a lifetime subscription for Malwarebytes Premium, and try it once in a while, but in realtime mode it (still) slows the system far too much and so is kept just for periodic on-demand scans, so am currently running Zemana Antimalware Premium in realtime mode, though, bearing in mind the extended functionality and good reputation of Windows Defender nowadays, ZAM is probably redundant on my system, but at least it gives minimal performance impact I may well not renew my 3-year subscription for it, for the price is much higher nowadays - but would still use the free version (if there is one by then) for periodic on-demand scans. I use SecureAPlus, with its offline AV (ClamAV) turned off and Windows Defender enabled. Generally MB only found “unwanted program in installer” stuff on my system, but with people who don’t know what they’re doing I can find a bunch of malware whenever I need to check “why is my system so slow?” problems. In general I prefer having it so I don’t have to tiptoe around the web and if anything were to pop in it would probably get caught. I’m an IT guy so I know how to handle safety, but I also need to use the web freely.ĪVG blocks some websites that try to redirect me to scammers or stops new programs from running till it runs a check, but that’s really rare. I started using MB because people said that it’s good and after testing it for a while it was just as easy to use as AVG so I kept it around. I’ve used AVG for many years and so far it’s been the best user experience for me and it doesn’t matter if it’s not the best. I use AVG free as a general passive protection so it keeps check on things trying to run and MalwareBytes as an active scanner for the chance that something odd is happening and I need some day1 protection. I only include the antivirus name in parentheses if that is more commonly used without the publisher’s name. I changed to use the publisher names so distinguishing products by license is no longer practical. Microsoft has the default Windows option which is a magnitude more popular than than the next and Avast which is nearly a magnitude more popular than any of the rest. Freeware was removed because, apart from Microsoft and Avast, their products tend to have low market share. Trialware (paid products with a free trial period) was removed because that confused people.
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