what security for my win 8.1 laptop
Recently, I asked for help on this forum about replacing my xp laptop. Thanks for all the help. I bought a toshiba with win 8.1, so far so good. It came with 30 days of norton. I had microsoft e...
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Not a fan of payed anti-malware
Firewall. None better or more annoying, than Zone Alarm, There is a free version, NOTE this program not only blocks INCOMING attacks but asks for permission before it will let a program call out as well. This is why it is most annoying You have to approve most programs that wish to access the internet. This has enabled me to find infections in computers in the past (When the mal-ware tried to "Phone Home" Zone alarm told me about it).
Anti-Other stuff (Virus et-al) AVAST or AVG FREE backed up with Malware Bytes.
(You run malware bytes manually) There are other good Anti-malware programs too but those get good reviews. I like having two different ones on board One runs in the background all the time,, The other I fire up manually from time to time.
Firewall. None better or more annoying, than Zone Alarm, There is a free version, NOTE this program not only blocks INCOMING attacks but asks for permission before it will let a program call out as well. This is why it is most annoying You have to approve most programs that wish to access the internet. This has enabled me to find infections in computers in the past (When the mal-ware tried to "Phone Home" Zone alarm told me about it).
Anti-Other stuff (Virus et-al) AVAST or AVG FREE backed up with Malware Bytes.
(You run malware bytes manually) There are other good Anti-malware programs too but those get good reviews. I like having two different ones on board One runs in the background all the time,, The other I fire up manually from time to time.
