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I use Malwarebytes with AVG (yeah it's shit but it's what I'm used to). AVG, like Windows Defender will give you A LOOOOT of false positives though.

I remember when AVG was good. I regard AVG and Norton Antivirus as worse than any virus I've ever come across. Especially AVG was actual work to uninstall.

I only use windows defender and if I suspect something I'll do one scan with malwarebytes and then uninstall it right afterwards.
 

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Windows Defender for real-time protection is all anyone needs. The free version of Malwarebytes is great for on-demand scanning. Between those two, there's no need for anything else on Windows.
 
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I use free Avast, which also lets me update my existing programs, like Winrar and VLC.
 

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Ublock will save you more than anything. Also, make sure you enable Ublock for Privacy Windows in your browser. This has saved me a ton of issues when looking for streaming sports sites. I also use Eset Antivirus. It is a light weight very reliable anti-virus. It costs about $40 a year. I never use malwarebyes or similar anymore, there just isn't a need.
 
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Just install Malwarebytes.
Windows 10 has it's own built-in AV which works perfectly and is part of the system.
 

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  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Damn cleaned up 348GB's of crap I wasn't using with that lol
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  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    But can it completely remove RealPlayer? Lol jk
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  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    I remember at one point it being pretty much labeled as malware lol
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    I think my favorite one was that dancing purple gorilla... I uninstalled that thing from sooo many machine people would be like "Why is my computer so slow?" lol because this thing is using like 30% of your system resources.....
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  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    This one lady... her son kept installing Kazaa... OK no problem the issue is he would download DBZ movies and they where amazing usually like 2-8KB in size lol can't remember how many times I had to format and reinstall windows over his stupidity. I even explained to him about file sizes multiple times...
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  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    yeah Bonzi buddy was malware sort of... It was borderline lol
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    At minimum it was nothing anyone should have ever installed lol
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  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @BigOnYa, RealPlayer is spyware too.
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  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Psionic Roshambo, Yeah, BonziBuddy was both spyware and ad-ware. It collected children's personal information without consent as well as display fake Windows popups.
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  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, atleast bonzi got discontinued
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  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Xdqwerty, The people who created Bonzi now owns a company called 2KDirect; an advertising firm. https://www.ipromote.com/
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  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, atleast they get slightly cleaner money
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  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    guys, hot take
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  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    So Bonzi buddy was an evil version of Alexa lol
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  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    the legal drinking age here in the US is 21, as some of you may know, but i think either it should be 18 or the age you're an adult should be 21.
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  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    and i know what you may be thinking, "why become an adult at 21? doesn't that mean that banging an 18 year old would be illegal?"
    first of all, being in a relationship with someone who's 18 is technically ok, as long as it started when they were 18, but the age gap is still weird depending on how old you are. besides, the age of consent differs between different states
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  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    also my reasoning for adult age being 21 is because the reason that's the drinking (and now smoking) age is because it "gives them more time to think rationally and not drive drunk"
    so you should have that extra time to mature and think rationally before going to serve in the military or vote
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  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    tl;dr the "adult" age and the legal drinking age (and voting age) here in the US should be the same
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  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    It's all good no one pays attention to the law anyway lol
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    What about making kids wait till 18 or 21 to drive? And yea is messed up, you can join army and die for your country at age 18, but you can't drink alcohol or smoke a cig til 21, is ridiculous
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    Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsR4O4W0w