You throw on either free Avast, AVG, Avira or Bitdefender and you are all good. Working IT security I will say flat out paying for an anti-virus is not needed. None of them are perfect and they all miss things, IE: Norton and McAfee are useless against malware and trojans etc and they get by them all the time, but those are in another category that's strictly for virus detection, the same way malwarebytes is not as good detecting viruses but good with malicious things.Īfter running a bunch of in house tools we go over the computers with 'HiJackThis' which is a tool for you to manually inspect. We run other software then that, but that's basically the starting point, often we will run a program called 'JRT' Junkware Removal Tool and it will pick up more things that Malwarebytes missed. As someone who clears viruses and malware 12 hours a day, Malwarebytes is just the best program with the best rate of catching most stuff.
