Trojans/malware are extremely common because they are non-destructive to the os/pc just your personal habits/info which is what many websites are after, so they'll pay ppl to write malware for their purposes. Nobody has yet sent it to Microsoft for review.Īctual virus's are pretty uncommon nowadays, too much of a pain to figure out how to get around in Windows code, and they don't pay. But, they might be the only ones to have a fix yet, and if you are using Windows defender and you get it, Defender will not see it. Just as I prefer to mix-up malwarebytes and Spybot: Search and Destroy.Īlmost all AV/malware definitions/fixes that any AV type program uses are supplied by feedback from actual pc users, so if you do find a Trojan, it's only because someone else had it, heuristics found it, user sent it to malwarebytes, who made a fix and a definition for it. So there's that.Īpart from Norton, probably the best AV I've found has been Kaspersky, it has a tendency to pick up on stuff that many AV don't.

Personally, I'm not a fan of AVG, I find it 'wishy-washy' in its abilities. I've used Norton/Symantec for AV (and other things like Optimization for 25+ years, never had an issue, never had it fail me, yet some ppl can't stand it.

Everyone has one, most argue against them.

Malwarebytes is safe