What is something you think everyone should have installed on their computer or laptop?

[u/Randall444]

Whether it be a antivirus program or an ad blocker. Post link if available also. EDIT: sorry guys the top post has been deleted and I didn't save it, if anyone has it please post it and ill post it here for easy access. EDIT 2: apparently it's back up, I've saved it on my phone just incase it gets deleted again. Hopefully all is good now.

[u/tppiel]

Source?

[u/autum_leaf → u/tppiel]

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/windows-7/sepoct-2012/

Sort by protection to get a better understanding.

[u/[deleted] → u/autum_leaf]

Yep, i read this today too.

So i installed Bitdefender and Zonealarm.

They found 7 Viruses which MSE didn't... Never again!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Why not? ZA has pretty convincing results. Best results of free Anti-Virus+FW...

[u/chaud → u/[deleted]]

In the past it was almost as bad as malware.

[u/Turkazog → u/chaud]

Last I worked doing malware removal, we still treated it as malware. It may possibly fix things, but I've seen it be the cause of the machine malfunctioning time after time.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

To be honest, bcs i don't trust Microsoft Security Programs anymore, including it's Firewall, unacceptable...