Electronics

[chickenbutt]

My experience with Defender has been that, before Win10, it wasn't an actual anti-virus software.  Then, with Win10 they turned into an anti-virus program.

I had found that out when one time, several years ago, I decided to try using it as an a/v on one of my older laptops and the computer warned me that I had no a/v installed.  It performed entirely differently prior to Win10.  I had to install another program that was fully a/v.

I'm with you in that I wouldn't use McAfee or Norton even for free at this point.   McAfee was never good. Norton used to be but it went bad, IMO, quite a few years ago.

[gardenman]

@chickenbutt

Yeah, the Windows Security Essentials I mentioned in my post is the antivirus/firewall program that needs to be added to Defender for more complete protection on older computers.

[chickenbutt]

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@gardenman wrote:

@chickenbutt

Yeah, the Windows Security Essentials I mentioned in my post is the antivirus/firewall program that needs to be added to Defender for more complete protection on older computers.

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Thank You for that info!      I'm sorry I didn't pay better attention to what you said because I always enjoy your intelligent, informational posts.

[Deree]

Oh yes I have a 6 year old laptop with Windows 7 that came with Microsoft Security Essentials loaded for free for antivirus and I also use Malwarebytes Free for malware.