Good morning! I need to

[babylonsister]

pick some protection/anti-virus for my VivoBook (ASUS). I have been using Norton but they're relentless with their ads and updates. I went to an informational page for ASUS and McAffee was recommended.

Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations? I know this has probably been addressed here a lot, so even an old link I could read would be useful. Thank you for any help!

[Ptah]

1. Windows security is installed on Windows.

No cost. Effective.

[Anguiped]

2. Good morning

I would recommend Malwarebytes for voth active and passive scanning.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

3. MS Defender

Is as good or better than most A/V software. It's built-in Win 10&11.

[cilla4progress]

4. AVG

I would avoid McAfee. Here's why.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee

[Earth-shine]

5. The security built into Windows (Denfender) is quite adequate for 99% of us.

I would never install Norton or McAfee on any of my computers.

Definitely, do not install McAfee. It's resource intensive and very hard to get rid of.

So, why would Asus recommend McAfee? Why does it come as a "trial version" on many new PCs?

Simply because McAfee pays them to put it on there.