[GuestHu]

The trial of my antivirus, McAfee expired and I do not want to renew because it requires payment and I do not want to pay. Can someone suggest a free antivirus for windows 10? So I might still be protected from malicious attacks.

[cmoneyspinner]

I use Avast for Windows 7. My daughter uses it for Windows 10.

[mrki444]

Why not Windows Defender? It is part of Windows, free and it works great for me. I didn't have any problems with it.

[cmoneyspinner]

Why not Windows Defender? It is part of Windows, free and it works great for me. I didn't have any problems with it.

Uuhh ... my daughter is our inhouse geek. I just do what she tells me to do.

[mrki444]

Uuhh ... my daughter is our inhouse geek. I just do what she tells me to do.

Ask her what is he opinion about Defender. Advantages and flaws. I want hear her opinion about it.

[cmoneyspinner]

Uuhh ... my daughter is our inhouse geek. I just do what she tells me to do.

Ask her what is he opinion about Defender. Advantages and flaws. I want hear her opinion about it.

She uses it but she also thinks it's good to have Avast also,

[Emmaojo]

Can't Avira be used for windows 10, because I use windows 7 and that's what I use for it

[mrki444]

She uses it but she also thinks it's good to have Avast also,

Two antivirus software on one computer? I don't prefer that. It can come to collision between those and it slows computer for sure.

[skysnap]

I use default Windows defender. It gets my work done. I will continue to use that for my work. I don't see a reason to make use of antivirus these days.

[Pousinha]

Why not Windows Defender? It is part of Windows, free and it works great for me. I didn't have any problems with it.

Defender is great for me too. It's 6 or 7 years I'm using it and don't repent. I only complement it, sometimes I consider it necessary, with a standalone scanning free protection tool, as stinger mcAfee, or better KVRT (kaspersky virus removal tool). My notebooks go fine this way.

[skysnap]

Most of the commercial antivirus are just being shady and showing random scans and slowing the system down. I don't need external antivirus anymore.

[Fergal]

Most of the commercial antivirus are just being shady and showing random scans and slowing the system down

I'm a little surprised at that, do you include the really well known and popular commercial antivirus programs in that? What gave you that opinion?

[Pousinha]

All depends how much powerful is our device. I noticed the slowing system too, as in a netbook I own there was Norton Antivirus default and since the beginning slowed down all system. But that netbook only has 1 GIGA memory, weak HD and intel atom processor, so no commercial antivirus can run the device. I suppose commercial antivirus works well in a device counting at least with 8 GIGA memory, a dedicated GPU and intel core processor.