What Antivirus are you using?
Looks like BitDefender gets the highest marks (best combo of RAP score, Performance Impact (lowest of them all), and stability.
https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/results/test_from/2015-08/vb100-antimalware
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I use AVG as well. If you are generally careful, even an average quality antivirus will be enough.
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Norton for me! I also have a sub for Malwarebytes, both work perfectly together.
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That poll literally lists every shitty commercial antivirus softwares in the existance.
Use your brain, if you're having trouble use Eset NOD32( I do use it since I have to use lots of USB's from different classmates¹). Avast is the second worst antivirus ever, first one was Panda (I don't know if it's still around).
¹most of them are technologically retarded.
Notes;
Avira has A LOT of performance impact.
Kaspersky is completely useless in malwares.
Norton just adds a yellow box near your computer clock and does nothing else.
McAfee ... seriously ... what the f**k is wrong with you ?
AVG was okay until W10, they have a bad support for it.
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"BitDefender has A LOT of performance impact."
No, it does not. Please do your research.
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I mixed up BitDefender and Avira. Sorry about it, it's been a long time since I used them.
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Ah, yes, I have to agree with you based upon my experience. I'd go look up the performance hit for it on av-test but I just got home from work and am too lazy to. xD
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I'm using Avast! at the moment, with the occasional run of MBAM. I also use common sense and don't click and run random things from unknown sources.
I also use Sandboxie and/or VirtualBox when I want to run suspicious things that could potentially put me at risk.
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Common sense, an excess of caution, and Mbam for when I inevitably screw up. I used to work in IT and I found, working on other peoples' computers, what some of the most common ways virus are transmitted porn and torrents, and especially porn torrents and so now I can avoid some of the risks that way. I used to run Avast, but it decided to flip out on me, so now I'm running rather unsafely.
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I'm not a professional, a hacker, or whatever, but I'm aware of most of the common dangers you can find on the internet.
I used AVG and avast! (free versions) in the past, but then I realized they only ate resources and annoyed me with messages every moment. Then I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7, which got embedded as Windows Defender in Windows 8 and 10. Never had a problem nor annoyance with it (but maybe it's because I know what to click in a web page), it's very quiet and light.
I run Malwarebytes every now and then, but usually it doesn't find anything.
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I've been using avast! for a while now and while it's been working for me, I wonder if there is a better one out there.
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