Do you need an antivirus program on your laptop for Windows 10?

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Do you need an antivirus program on your laptop for Windows 10?

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For windows, you always need an antivirus program. That's because windows has several security holes in contrast to a linux for example.

Except you never go to the internet and will never connect a usb stick to your pc. Then you can do without it

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It is not bad if you also have an antivirus installed. A free program like Avira or others is enough.

The most important security is to work as little as possible with the administrator account of Windows and also to train oneself some security awareness. This includes, for example, checking the file extension of email attachments, even if they come from a trusted source + do not open attachments from other sources. Obtain downloads only from the manufacturer and also check if the manufacturer is reputable etc.

Ma

This is pretty blue-eyed, because not everyone is an IT expert. I have enough customers to get hundreds of malware on the computer because they found some program great and did not pay attention to what else is installed in the background.

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That's why I wrote that the layman should rather be on the safe side.

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Do you need an antivirus program on your laptop for Windows 10?
When using Windows 10 is a virus scanner duty, otherwise it is not synonymous if most virus scanners can't detect all viruses. The infection time from connecting to the Internet to infection (Windows 10) is 25 minutes. No virnscanner in the world can help here. If you do not want this one is better off with a Linux distribution and depending on the application you do not even need a virus scanner.

https://linuxmint.com/...wnload.php

It's also Kostnelos and you can safely install it on any pc in the world where you want to have it without having to be afraid with licenses or the like.

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