Windows 10 McAfee or Windows 10 antivirus

[Barry]

I have recently upgraded my new ( 1 year old) laptop from Windows 8 to 10. The laptop came with a free trial McAfee antivirus package. I paid for a year extension to this and am due in a months time to pay for another years protection. However I am wondering if using Windows 10 whether I can use the built in software instead.

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks

Barry

 

[BIGBEARJEDI]

@helpifIcan: People who rely on just 1 AV program these days are oft to get the infamous "ID-10T" error! LOL.

Cheers!
BBJ

 

[hTconeM9user]

On all my systems I only have Windows Defender having removed McAfee from all of them once I unpacked them from the boxes
Been using Defender now for nearly 2 years and have had no trouble at all with any web sites
I scan when it notifies me and it updates on its own
I have found since using it all my laptops start up and load very fast

 

[MikeHawthorne]

Hi

If I had to guess, I'd say that Malwrebytes is doing most of the work on my computer.

I've never actually seen Defender do any thing, it scans but never finds a thing.

Probably because Malwarebys got there first.

Mike

 

[andywozere]

I wouldn't touch mccoffees nor norton.....avast is definitely a better option and its free

 

[nmsuk]

I wouldn't use Avast it's known to cause BSODs and random freezing.

 

[kemical]

I wouldn't use Avast it's known to cause BSODs and random freezing.

Word up!

 

[andywozere]

Its still better than the other 2, although, I too have been having issues with avast (I didn't have the problem when I first had win7), there is still Malwarebytes, comodo (which I was using for a long time)....

 

[nmsuk]

I used to use comodo with not a problem. Now just using defender and MBAM