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<blockquote data-quote="a090" data-source="post: 1035259" data-attributes="member: 99949"><p>100%. I just installed Kaspersky a few days ago on my father’s PC as per [USER=99014]@Trident[/USER] ‘s recommendation. I’d go with that for your aunt. Set all the heuristics to High / Extreme in the various protection modules. I’m assuming your aunt won’t be coding or gaming, so it’s unlikely she’ll run into many false positives this way. But cranking these security settings up could help prevent an attack from a bad link or email attachment. In fact, Kaspersky can apparently make your system invincible if you tune the settings to block all untrusted executables. I haven’t done this tweak yet on my father’s PC but plan to shortly.</p><p></p><p>I use F-Secure on my own system (alongside Windows Firewall Control and AdGuard Desktop). It’s light, clean, and provides decent protection. The product doesn’t MITM HTTPS connections, and doesn’t install a root certificate either. Both of these things Kaspersky does. F-Secure has also been around since the beginning of time (in the cybersec world) and won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. They’re known as an ethical actor in the AV industry, and don’t bend to government (doesn’t whitelist government malware). It’s a nice product.</p><p></p><p>Can you do better for protection? Sure. I’d point towards Kaspersky or BitDefender. Especially for older folks. Install either one and crank everything on High.</p><p></p><p>But for most security-conscious users, the difference is marginal. And F-Secure gets the job done, and stays in the background while doing it. I’m a fan so far. Started using it a couple if weeks ago. [USER=52732]@JB007[/USER]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey, that’s a nice looking AV you got there Jonny. Looks real similar to mine <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="a090, post: 1035259, member: 99949"] 100%. I just installed Kaspersky a few days ago on my father’s PC as per [USER=99014]@Trident[/USER] ‘s recommendation. I’d go with that for your aunt. Set all the heuristics to High / Extreme in the various protection modules. I’m assuming your aunt won’t be coding or gaming, so it’s unlikely she’ll run into many false positives this way. But cranking these security settings up could help prevent an attack from a bad link or email attachment. In fact, Kaspersky can apparently make your system invincible if you tune the settings to block all untrusted executables. I haven’t done this tweak yet on my father’s PC but plan to shortly. I use F-Secure on my own system (alongside Windows Firewall Control and AdGuard Desktop). It’s light, clean, and provides decent protection. The product doesn’t MITM HTTPS connections, and doesn’t install a root certificate either. Both of these things Kaspersky does. F-Secure has also been around since the beginning of time (in the cybersec world) and won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. They’re known as an ethical actor in the AV industry, and don’t bend to government (doesn’t whitelist government malware). It’s a nice product. Can you do better for protection? Sure. I’d point towards Kaspersky or BitDefender. Especially for older folks. Install either one and crank everything on High. But for most security-conscious users, the difference is marginal. And F-Secure gets the job done, and stays in the background while doing it. I’m a fan so far. Started using it a couple if weeks ago. [USER=52732]@JB007[/USER] Hey, that’s a nice looking AV you got there Jonny. Looks real similar to mine ;) [/QUOTE]
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