McAfee Total Protection subscription ended, can't seem to find Black Friday bargain.
Wonder what's OzBargain's choice of anti-virus program? Any cheaper if subscribe from turkiye?
UPDATE: mainly for non-tech savvy elderly person(like mums and dads). bonus if it can be installed on their android phones.
What's an anti-virus?
I have a gl.inet brume2 router doing adguard home and .. potentaily its free AV, i cant remember.
plus windefender on computers
Linux OS
poll?
OzBargain forums
Microsoft Defender + being careful
Microsoft Defender.
Use a standard/non-admin account for day-to-day tasks - keep your administrator account separate.
Don't forward ports on your router unless it's 100% necessary.
UBlock Origin (ad blocking and malicious domain blocking for your browser).
Pihole or AdGuard Home (network-wide ad blocking and malicious domain blocking).
Be mindful of phishing attacks and other scams (fake invoices or real invoices from compromised email accounts of tradies/suppliers).
Store your files with a file system that supports snapshots (protection against ransomware or accidental deletions).
Maintain an offline versioned backup to mitigate damage from ransomware.
Setting up an isolated virtual machine (VM) using something free like VirtualBox, VMware Workstation Player or Hyper-V (included as a manually enabled feature in Windows 10/11 Pro) can be handy if you really really need to check the contents of a file you don't fully trust, while being aware that some sophisticated malware can recognise if they're being run in a VM and not unleash payloads.
thanks for the comprehensive list! meanwhile, do you have any suggestion for elderly people who are not tech savvy(like moms and dads)? im not with them so im particularly concern with their online security, especially android phones. currently mcafee installs in android(i guess at least malicious links/files would be warn/blocked).
uBlock Origin but make sure you get it from the official developer. I'd also use Firefox as Chrome has changed how their extensions work which has affected extensions like uBlock Origin.
Why go effort of creating virtual machine (VirtualBox, VMware Workstation Player or Hyper-V) when Microsoft provides this as part of Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise?
Thanks. I didn't even know Sandbox existed.
First line of defence is uBlock Origin on desktop and mobile, complemented by a PiHole for the rest of the network. That avoids all problems on any jolly-roger-waving sites like bogus download buttons.
If an item makes it to my Downloads folder then Windows Defender picks up the slack - but I have more problems with false positives (e.g. RDPwrapper) that are knowingly fine but they go against MS's regulations on what I can do with my own PC, and thus are flagged.
Common Sense
Not so common these days.
Kaspsersky key from saveonit.com.au. :)
laughs in Arch Linux
MS Defender and Brave browser for PC and Android will do the trick for your elderly peeps tho.
Poll required.
MS Defender.
I'd choose the one with the biggest malware creation division, so by market share: Symantec Norton
For computers Windows defender and firewall is more than sufficient for computer security for elders. Already installed. Nothing else needed.
Download free Avira security for android on the phones.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avira.andr…
Ad supported. Just ignore them.
Problem solved and question answered. No need to pay for any security suite.
You do not need any anti-virus software. They often cause MUCH MORE issues than what is worth. Windows defender and common sense is all that is needed and the best part? It is free!
Eset
Thought by the title we were going to have another covid 19 shit post. Glad I was wrong.