Computer Help and Support

I use the built-in Microsoft Defender, as well as Malwarebytes, Avast, and Spybot. The last one has the immunisation feature that blacklists known scam sites by listing them in the hosts file as 127.0.0.1

I helped out an elderly, not particularly computer-savvy, friend who'd been scammed by uninstalling some totally unneeded anti-virus software he was paying for and re-enabling Defender. I would have installed Malwarebytes and Avast as well, but decided against it because of the continual nagging for subscriptions. They're not needed, but he almost certainly would have bought them anyway with his history of continually paying unneeded charges. I copied over my hosts file to provide the immunisation required.

It's shocking to see the average person's Win 10 machine out there with all the crap, nagware and browser "notifications". It's almost unusable!