I recently repaired a laptop from a well-known one and everything worked normally. What I do now is set the laptop as before. I will have to install Avast and Google Chrome sooner. The only little thing is where is this "two finger scrolling" on Windows 10 version 2004 now? I have already read an old manual, but it is no longer under Devices - Touchpad. Does anyone know where that could be now?
A small survey: Should I use another antivirus or should I leave Avast?
Or. Knock AntiVirus out completely and switch off the Defender. Experience shows that only brings something against bloatware anyway and you only get it when you're on strange pages.
Take the Windows Defender.
It's pretty good now.
Then what should protect against malware? Prayers and spit or how?
I would never do that without using an AV client!
Windows Defender is quite sufficient.
As recommended by someone here, it would be negligent to do without this too.
However, I would recommend you to create a local user profile without admin rights for all everyday tasks, regardless of any antivirus software. You do not necessarily need a password for this profile.
You give the account with admin a short password (alone, so that you don't just "wave" through an admin request with a thoughtless click).
No software can access the system from a user profile without administrator rights, and you have already built a wall that is insurmountable for malware.
Any ransomware has no way of paralyzing the entire system because it simply reaches the limits of the user profile. At worst, you just have to delete the profile.
The admin password is a reminder. If a program requires admin rights, you have to troubleshoot why this is necessary while entering the password. A query out of the blue can only come from a pest.
And I would never ne AV software aka. Use power guzzler. If you catch a real virus, it will give you dirt, because modern viruses are logically programmed so that they are not recognized by such software. And as I said, when you catch bloatware you realize that firstly and secondly it hardly ever happens anyway. I have been using my Windows 10 completely without AV for 5 years now, never had any problems or any bloatware / viruses. The defender only eats performance, which of course is nicely calculated in the task manager.
It's your decision, but AV programs bring a lot! Measures have been taken to circumvent these by long-standing detection of malware through appropriate behavior. And they don't need a lot of power either.
I would always add a PW to a profile. Not that anyone can access my data.
Well, before I switched off my Windows defender, the laptop always stopped when it was standing, now it doesn't. Fans have been dusted and the lappi is an ausus l555 from 2015, so it is not very poor in performance. And still he blew. I'm relatively certain that the task manager calculates the power consumption so that no one complains.
That may be, but at some point you will have malware on your PC (if it is not already so) and will then be annoyed that you have no AV program installed / active.
But as I said, you have to know. Some people just have to learn it the hard way. ^^
And 5 years are an eternity in the computer field.
I definitely don't have any bloatware, and nope I don't have to learn the hard way, since Windoof generally only runs in a VM to gamble with me. Otherwise I use Ubuntu.
Well that's something completely different.
