What's your favorite AV for home use?
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I always suggest Webroot even for a home user. It's $38 via amazon for 3 devices.
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Webroot.
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@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
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@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
Yes, but it is RARE. I like it to not be chatty. Chatty is how you get shut off.
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@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
Yes, but it is RARE. I like it to not be chatty. Chatty is how you get shut off.
Rare is ok, as long as the user gets informed.
What about detection rates of Windows Defender and Webroot?
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@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
Yes, but it is RARE. I like it to not be chatty. Chatty is how you get shut off.
You can keep the chatty away from the endpoint with Webroot (at least the biz version w/ central console). Plus it can be set to not be able to change settings at the endpoint.
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@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
Yes, but it is RARE. I like it to not be chatty. Chatty is how you get shut off.
Yep. . . gaming mode all the time, if you are sending me "omg I found something" every day I'm removing you . . .
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@RojoLoco said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
Yes, but it is RARE. I like it to not be chatty. Chatty is how you get shut off.
You can keep the chatty away from the endpoint with Webroot (at least the biz version w/ central console). Plus it can be set to not be able to change settings at the endpoint.
Yeah but who does that help?
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@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@RojoLoco said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
Yes, but it is RARE. I like it to not be chatty. Chatty is how you get shut off.
You can keep the chatty away from the endpoint with Webroot (at least the biz version w/ central console). Plus it can be set to not be able to change settings at the endpoint.
Yeah but who does that help?
Click happy users and my sanity. I don't see home use as much different than work use, I have the same setup both places.
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I've been using SecureAPlus for the last several months, along with Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 and Windows Defender on Windows 10. It uses ClamAV and it's free - check it out: https://www.secureaplus.com/
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I use avast for business at home because it's free and I have a central console to see things
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@RojoLoco said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@RojoLoco said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@thwr said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use the one that comes with Windows
Windows Defender? That's what I told him
Yes. It's free and included. It works quite well. It's no Webroot, but it is free and managed by the system. It will stay up to date for forever. No need to re-up, manage it, worry about it, etc.
One problem is that Windows Defender isn't exactly a chatty tool. Have you ever seen a popup about a possible infection?
Yes, but it is RARE. I like it to not be chatty. Chatty is how you get shut off.
You can keep the chatty away from the endpoint with Webroot (at least the biz version w/ central console). Plus it can be set to not be able to change settings at the endpoint.
Yeah but who does that help?
Click happy users and my sanity. I don't see home use as much different than work use, I have the same setup both places.
But in the office the central alerts go to someone in IT. For home users, they would just go into the aether.
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Avira and Avast were always decent for free.
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A pirates life for me.
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@JaredBusch said in What's your favorite AV for home use?:
I use avast for business at home because it's free and I have a central console to see things
I've got a few people switched over to that also.
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Avast is actually pretty good. We ran it for a couple of years at my last job. Not sure what they're using now though.
I like Webroot because it ain't chatty unless I'm being hit by a drive by or something.
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My normal ones are Avast, Avira, AVG all FREE.
If they are willing to pay Webroot or ESET -
Windows Defender... works well enough and is included with the operating system.
