Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
I recently tried purchasing the full (premium) version of Malwarebytes, having just used their trial version, which I was pleased with. The payment I attempted never reached them (I've no idea why). So ... I have been considering alternatives, and Bitdefender seemed the ideal one.

If my second attempt to pay for the premium Malwarebytes also fails, I'm going to go with Bitdefender.

Kaspersky looks good, and sells, apparently, at a cut price. HOWEVER ... the British Government was given advice, a warning, not to install Kaspersky on any of their computers.

See this:

https://news.sky.com/story/british-g...tware-11152445



[No doubt some passing Russian contributor (Balu ?) will come on here to complain about supposed anti-Russian propaganda ... ?]

By the way, on VPN's .. I see no good reason to use them, not if anti-virus & anti-malware software is up to its promised spec. Except for one, that is. If you wanted to use a foreign media outlet's services, VPN's should be a good way of gaining access. For example - if (however improbably !) someone in the US wanted to open an access account to the BBC's 'iPlayer' video service, it locks out all attempts if they seemingly originate from beyond the UK. With a VPN set up to use a UK-based server ... 'iPlayer', so I've read, can be fooled into thinking that's where you're from. Therefore, you get access.
I use Norton but also run a scan with MalwareBytes free version every time I finish using my laptop. It may be overkill but I would rather not be running with malware on my machine.

MalwareBytes has removed malware from previous laptops that Norton could not. However, you must run it as an admin user to do this.

I normally run as a standard user, meaning I can’t install software. I have an admin user account in my laptop when I want to install. The reason for this set up is to thwart viruses, since they seem to exploit the fact that many people normally run as admin users

For those who use their computers to browse and do emails and little else, consider a Chromebook. The are fairly cheap and are very secure.


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