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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 98186" data-source="post: 1030500">The answer to &quot;What is best AV?&quot; is highly subjective and personal. The reasons people choose certain software runs from geopolitical to varying degrees of paranoia to just liking the GUI.Jedem das Seine. To Each His Own.My criteria is extremely light on resources, stable, reliable and highly compatible with Windows. That leaves basically F-Secure. A plus with F-Secure is there are never troubles with Core Isolation, I can still use MS Defender Exploit Protection, and other Windows protections. No problems with Visual Studio Code and its output. No problems using PowerShell. I can still enable MS Defender for periodic scans (hardened to MAX with Configure Defender)... and it all just works together for a nice user experience.[SPOILER=&quot;F-Secure&quot;][ATTACH=full]273583[/ATTACH][/SPOILER]Caveat: F-Secure is not the greatest protection against malicious scripts. For a paranoid user they should block commonly used sponsors, scripts or create sponsor block firewall rules.Friends that are unmanaged home users - I gave them Chromebooks as presents. The few times I did look at their Windows laptops, each one was infested with PUA\PUPs.Friends that are in the IT industry, have not heard a single complaint about an infection in decades.Businesses - it is my business to deal with infected businesses daily.I do not recall any regular MT members except for the recent self-admission of an &quot;almost infected&quot; resulting from a software download from Youtube.There once was a semi-regular MT member - 2 or 3 years after ransomware really hit it big - that was the type to search the internet for and download PDFs for &quot;study &amp; research.&quot; They did that once too often. ESET did not detect it as ransomware and upon opening the PDF (obfuscated .exe) all their files were encrypted. This included their PhD work product. They had no backups.This is one of the appeals of F-Secure. It cannot be tweaked, but unless you are a prolific, wonton downloader who has no regard for security, it will do a good job</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 98186, post: 1030500"] The answer to "What is best AV?" is highly subjective and personal. The reasons people choose certain software runs from geopolitical to varying degrees of paranoia to just liking the GUI. Jedem das Seine. To Each His Own. My criteria is extremely light on resources, stable, reliable and highly compatible with Windows. That leaves basically F-Secure. A plus with F-Secure is there are never troubles with Core Isolation, I can still use MS Defender Exploit Protection, and other Windows protections. No problems with Visual Studio Code and its output. No problems using PowerShell. I can still enable MS Defender for periodic scans (hardened to MAX with Configure Defender)... and it all just works together for a nice user experience. [SPOILER="F-Secure"][ATTACH type="full"]273583[/ATTACH][/SPOILER] Caveat: F-Secure is not the greatest protection against malicious scripts. For a paranoid user they should block commonly used sponsors, scripts or create sponsor block firewall rules. Friends that are unmanaged home users - I gave them Chromebooks as presents. The few times I did look at their Windows laptops, each one was infested with PUA\PUPs. Friends that are in the IT industry, have not heard a single complaint about an infection in decades. Businesses - it is my business to deal with infected businesses daily. I do not recall any regular MT members except for the recent self-admission of an "almost infected" resulting from a software download from Youtube. There once was a semi-regular MT member - 2 or 3 years after ransomware really hit it big - that was the type to search the internet for and download PDFs for "study & research." They did that once too often. ESET did not detect it as ransomware and upon opening the PDF (obfuscated .exe) all their files were encrypted. This included their PhD work product. They had no backups. This is one of the appeals of F-Secure. It cannot be tweaked, but unless you are a prolific, wonton downloader who has no regard for security, it will do a good job [/QUOTE]

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