Windows 10 McAfee or Windows 10 antivirus

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Barry

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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
 
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In my computer repair business, I am still getting W10 computers with all kinds of bad viruses when their Owner's completely rely on Windows Defender alone. If they add a good antispyware program such as Malwarebytes (mentioned twice above), I still get infected computers. Some customers have tried SuperAntiSpyware, another well-rated program; but those programs together don't stop everything. Of course it's up to you; but the old saw "you get what you pay for", really applies to AV programs!

I disagree with both of my esteemed colleagues on this issue; I've been seeing this occur for the last 20 years ever since Microsoft decided to include an AV program built-in to Windows. So, regardless of what you read on the...
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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
 
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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
 
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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)....
 
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