John Weller wrote:
I have been asked to give a talk to a local pensioner's organisation on internet security. One of the points I will make is that you need a good anti-virus. I have used M$ Security Essentials and now Windows Defender on Win 10 for some years without any problems, largely as a result of recommendations here. In a recent magazine article in UK they were saying that Defender is not very good only picking up 75% of viruses in a test. They were advocating Kaspersky; the fact that they were offering it at a discount but were undoubtedly getting a cut may have influenced their decision. What anti-virus are you using? Do you still recommend Defender? Any thoughts or comments? I will be recommending one to the pensioners so will be going for one of the free ones.
Thanks John
Defender +1
Rather than expect an anti-virus Swiss-Army knife to provide total safety, I use several different vectors of protection. 1. Defender (and keep it up to date) 2. OpenDNS for DNS resolution 3. CryptoPrevent for Crypto-hijack thwarting 4. A constant, some would say annoying, reminder to all those I support to never open email attachments that they weren't already expecting to receive.
Mike Copeland