Best Buy pulls Kaspersky's antivirus software

I use Microsoft's built-in Windows Defender for my basic anti-virus. it's good enough especially if your the kind of person who's generally careful on what you do/install on your computer.

for extra protection, i recommend... ransomfree.cybereason.com/ ; this specifically looks ONLY for Ransomware. it's free and light on resources as it does not rely on definition updates like your typical anti-virus type of program does but instead detects Ransomware based on the way it behaves. it claims it can block 99%+ of Ransomware and even unknown Ransomware. i have been using that for quite some time now and it's not interfered with anything i do so it should be safe for me to recommend to the average person. basically you largely install this and forget it as it only asks to update the core program once in a while as newer version of the program are released but it's largely a install it and forget it sorta thing. but even when i run this once in a great while for good measure, i don't have any of the live protection enabled as i strictly use it for a basic scan is all.

also, i use Voodooshield (i.e. voodooshield.com/ ) to and while this offers great protection given it just blocks everything you did not explicitly allow during the initial setup with it's 'training' mode it's basically a great line of initial defense as it's unlikely anything would get past that. but it does require a bit of configuring and while i have been using it for a while and it's largely fine i would not say it's as safe for me to recommend as RansomFree is but then again RansomFree is only for Ransomware where as Voodooshield just assumes everything that tries to run (that you did not specifically allow) is bad and blocks it.

also, www.malwarebytes.com/ ; seems to be popular for that occasional scan on your computer looking for random junk. i think this is mainly beneficial for those who are not careful on what they install on their PC and might get a fair amount of junk built-up on it and this could get rid of.

as for the general topic... i guess it boils down to who do you trust. maybe the gov genuinely found reason not to trust Kaspersky AV but at the same time it might just be a precaution. like a 'better safe than sorry' type of thing.


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Your not forced to use it as you can use other AV software as i am pretty sure Windows Defender will disable itself if you choose to use other AV software.

but one of the main reasons i like Microsoft's AV (Windows Defender) is it likely has less false positives than other AV's and is likely lighter on resources than other AV's. basically... it just does not screw with you and does it's thing in the background. it's not as obtrusive.

also, i think it's a good idea that Microsoft has that enabled by default simply because it guarantees there is a general baseline level of anti-virus protection vs nothing at all. like makes computers on the whole safer with it vs without it. like those who don't know much about computers will likely use thing as is and in that regard at least there is some decent protection there.

p.s. i recently clean installed the newest Fall Creators Update (i.e. build 16299.15 ; but is currently only 16299.19 after some Windows Updates), which came out Oct 17th 2017, and everything is basically good for me.