It starts you off with the Premium version ($40 a year) and reverts to the free version 14 days later if you don't pay up. For that, How-To Geek recommends Malwarebytes. But criminals have moved on from viruses to ransomware, zero-day attacks and other nasty stuff. Windows Defender does a great job on old-school viruses, according to How-To Geek, so you don't need another antivirus. By not renewing my BullGuard antivirus, I'll save $120 over three years. In an AV-Comparatives test, it stopped 99.5% of threats. Windows Defender, which is part of Windows, is good enough. Should he pay for an antivirus program?Īfter a lot of research on this issue, I say no. A reader asked if the free Windows Defender is enough.
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