[Info] Which is best?

[steelth]

Avg or microsoft essentials? I got a very very old computer i'm working on with very little storage so i only wanted 1. Years ago before microsoft essentials i always put Avg on computers now ,i'm wondering which would be best if you could only pick 1?

 

[LNCPapa]

I would personally go with MSE these days. I've been moving my machines over to MSE during the last year or so. It's pretty light weight and does a decent job finding baddies.

 

[Broni]

There is not such thing as the best AV program.

 

[LNCPapa]

There is not such thing as the best AV program.

Oh yeah, and I meant to say that too!

 

[Bobbye]

Might be better if a discussion like this would have been posted in the

Software & Apps: https://www.techspot.com/vb/menu17.html
or
Windows OS: https://www.techspot.com/vb/menu15.html

or best of all:

Using the search term best AV? in TechSpot search brings up 2,030 hits for this often asked question.
https://www.techspot.com/search-x.p...=FORID:10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=best+antivirus?&sa=

And it always ends up with the same answers:
There is no ]b]best[/b] AV.
Of the two asked about, I no longer recommend using AVG.
And for any computer, old or new, the AV is only part of the security- you need layered security:
One antivirus
One firewall (preferably bi-directional.
Two or more antimalware programs