Which antivirus software should I pick?

[Deleted User]

For a number of years now I've used Microsoft Security Essentials because it's free. Today I got a new computer with Windows 10 and it came with 3 years of Trend Micro Maximum Security for free.

I use the computer mainly for web browsing, online shopping, email and gaming. Sometimes I'll download movies from a certain Swedish torrent site.

So out of the two free options available which is the best? Is there a third paid option that I should look into or ignore at my own peril?

 

[Skyshadow101]

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I have Avast, and I personally recommend it and Bitdefender. They both have free options that are fairly decent. Trend Micro is just bloatware, with the experiences I’ve had with it.

 

[leon315]

definitely Windefender, tc, just stay far far away from any streaming/pirating/porn sites and u will be fine...u WONT CAUGHT BY A VIRUS BROWSING GBATEMP! any other ''commercial antivirus'' are virus themself thogh.

 

[GensokyoIceFairy]

As long as you don't download things like keygens, cracked software and such off the Internet you should be fine without an AV, but Windows Defender (MSE on Windows 7) does the job fine for general usage and picking up most things. I personally wouldn't recommend Avast after what happened to CCleaner.

 

[RattletraPM]

I've been using Avast Free for a long time now and I've never had any issues with it, except a few false positives every now and then.
I suggest you to only install its key components (File, web and optionally behaivour shield, most of the other ones are paid upgrades or rarely ever needed), then disabling CyberCapture (might trigger false positives and is largely unneeded if you're careful) and setting silent mode on (disables some annoying popups). This way you'll end up with a lightweight but good (and free) antivirus

 

[mgrev]

I don't use anything except for that i sometimes redownload malwarebytes (the trial cause i'm cheap) to run a scan once in a while (aka very rarely). Never found any viruses after one year of having this rig. You should be fine with just the windows defender if you're not some jackass that don't know how to prevent this stuff. However, if you got 3 free years, then you should use them

 

[AxlSt00pid]

Protegent
I use norton, it gets the job done
P.S.: I knew some of you would reccomend malwarebytes

 

[jDSX]

Common sense and malwarebytes should be good to go

 

[kingraa777]

i had a .losers virus the other day ffs.................first in my whole life thogh lol