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<blockquote data-quote="monkeylove" data-source="post: 992604" data-attributes="member: 19756">Use Novabench and similar to see what&#039;s lightest. For free versions, I found Bitdefender to be that.Indeed, Bitdefender is difficult to uninstall; you might have less problems if you use their uninstall tool. The same goes for other AVs. Given that, you may have to use trial or free versions and see what works.Common sense, etc., are no longer helpful because malware now appear in legitimate sites and software, and sometimes even go for embedded software, which means you&#039;ll need all available security features. Win 11 has them enabled by default, but you&#039;ll need more hardware power in order not to experience slower performance.Default-deny is also difficult for most users, as you may be presented with a request to which you don&#039;t know how to answer. There are times when you might deny a process that&#039;s actually legitimate and causes the system to malfunction.Finally, note that this happens in many ways in various software. For example, I set the tracking protection in a browser to &quot;strict&quot; and it broke some websites. You may tweak something in the system and it may break something else; you&#039;ll spend hours figuring out what happened until you realize that the problem was caused by that tweak.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="monkeylove, post: 992604, member: 19756"] Use Novabench and similar to see what's lightest. For free versions, I found Bitdefender to be that. Indeed, Bitdefender is difficult to uninstall; you might have less problems if you use their uninstall tool. The same goes for other AVs. Given that, you may have to use trial or free versions and see what works. Common sense, etc., are no longer helpful because malware now appear in legitimate sites and software, and sometimes even go for embedded software, which means you'll need all available security features. Win 11 has them enabled by default, but you'll need more hardware power in order not to experience slower performance. Default-deny is also difficult for most users, as you may be presented with a request to which you don't know how to answer. There are times when you might deny a process that's actually legitimate and causes the system to malfunction. Finally, note that this happens in many ways in various software. For example, I set the tracking protection in a browser to "strict" and it broke some websites. You may tweak something in the system and it may break something else; you'll spend hours figuring out what happened until you realize that the problem was caused by that tweak. [/QUOTE]

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