My esteemed listmates,

I thought I;d osted tsi question earlier this year but it's been crazy
busy developing MakerSpace, preparing and doing dog and pony shows re:
it. teaching 3d Printer basics, along with all the other tasks at the
library I've lost track of this.

I've used avast and malwarebytes for years but a Linux guy shared that
he installed Malwarebytes his Windows PC and when he uninstalled with
Revie Uninstalled he couldn't remove all the Malwarebytes files.

He's now using clamv (sp).

It was also suggested ....

Anti-virus: Windows 10, 11 have built-in AV protection. Activate it.
Also set up the Windows Firewall, and modify it for your purposes (may need
on-site help with that).

On my newest refurbished laptop running W10 I;ve never activated any
built-in AV.

How doe soen fdn and do that?

Regarding the Firewall ... isn't it just set to On by Default?

Do these Windows protection compare favorably to Bitdefender?

Are they better than avast, AVG, Malwarebytes?

It's become rather complex as these applications gather all your data,
sell it and track you.

Is Duck Duck Go the only application which doesn't track you or sell your data?

Thank you,

Charles.

Charlotte County Public Library