What's your security defense?

As the title says.

Honestly, all I have is Bitdefender and Malwarebytes. What about you guys, what do you use and why?


I use BitDefender because it's lightweight and free. Malwarebytes is my secondary AV because I don't really trust BitDefender's virus dictionary and scanning versus MBAM lol.

Good question, and good setup.

Bitdefender and Kaspersky are two good brands, both in their anti-virus and Internet Security suites, which I suppose is what you have?

An alternative to that would be - and you might be surprised - is Kaspersky Security Cloud + SysHardener + AndyFul/Run-By-Smartscreen.

I'm not a fan of Malwarbytes, especially when they announced their anti-malware could replace an anti-virus - it cannot. I'd recommend throwing into the mix Hitman Pro, and maybe Norton Power Eraser and ESET Online Scanner as good measure.

For the browser setup, ie, extensions and add-ons, that would probably require a whole new thread, but something like Firefox with AdGuard premium, a password manager and a few other security/productivity add-ons. The less add-ons/extensions, the better. Alternatively, Bitdefender TrafficLight is good, as well as uBlock Origin and uMatrix, although the latter is more for advanced users.