August 26, 2016 at 8:55 am

Are you using a free anti virus or paid anti virus? What is the name of the anti virus which your are using, how effective is the software?

August 26, 2016 at 9:07 am

@pcwork  I am using McAfee that came as part of the deal with my laptop for two years, I will continue with the same when the time comes to renew it in the month of November. There are free ones available but I don’t mind paying for extra facilities.  

August 26, 2016 at 9:14 am

@pcwork  I am using avast free anti virus since last 7 years. It is just working fine for me. With recent update I also got Avast Safezone browser specially made for net banking and all that. It is quite good.

August 26, 2016 at 10:24 am

I am using AVIRA anti virus which is free to download and free upates.

Although it can’t catch malware virus, I think it is good enough to stop those nasty viruses from crashing my os.

Malwarebytes is good for catching malware virus but crashes with other anti virus

August 26, 2016 at 10:42 am

@peachpurple yes in one of my laptops now being used by my wife I am also using Avira which I downloaded for free after one year of use the original antivirus provided by the vendor. Now they send me an email to upgrade it but I have never done that neither they have stopped my service.

August 27, 2016 at 1:37 am

I am using AVG antivirus, however it was not my decision, when I brought my PC home after taking him to the local PC service to fix some malfunctions, I noticed that they have put AVG as my prime anti-virus, and it is so since 2014. I have the 2014 version tho. As for preventing the computer to automatically click malware  Ads and stuff, I have downloaded the extension “Ad-Blocker”. But I stopped using it after I started my YouTube channel and monetized my videos, so ads can appear.

August 27, 2016 at 9:40 am

Thank you for your replies
Which is best anti virus to download , smallest in size and does not take up much hard disk space.
The virus is changing itself over a period of time

August 27, 2016 at 10:02 am

@pcwork generally you will find two sets of antivirus programs especially in free category it is generally a shorter one and with enhanced speed of internet it should not take more than few minutes to finish download.  

August 27, 2016 at 10:26 am

@pcwork I am using avast free antivirus. Working fine for me.

August 27, 2016 at 3:53 pm

I am using Avast anti virus, Mcfree and Kaspersky.Kaspersky easily removes malware.This is given to me for free by Facebook admin when my Facebook acquired malware during the Presidential campaign of Du30.

August 28, 2016 at 12:37 am

Are you asking about our computers or our phone’s, anyhow I use avira on my Android and on my laptop I use kerspersky  so far so good i don’t have any problem with them they are working pretty well for me.

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August 28, 2016 at 12:47 am

I use Iobit.   I use others as well, keep changing them… but IObit is my foundation.