Wife's windows 11 box seems to get infected every few months. Run Malwarebytes Free on it as well as The real AV ... Windows Defender. Once a month I run the free MWB and while normally fine I do end up with an issue on occasion, so I then run Windows Safety Scanner, which confirms MWB. I still live at our place in Washington state. Wife is near the grandkids in Oregon. Suspect grands are the virus mongers. Thinking about going ahead and paying for the fulltime MWB, which should prevent the infection before it starts, but want to continue with Defender as primary AV. It has great ratings. Web is all over the place with this Some sites say can't do it and others say it works fine. Basically MWB has just turned themselves into a Total AV suite and is no longer just what it used to be???? Thoughts?
Just try windows defender. Usually mwb is the virus, thats why they want you to pay. Try removing mwb completely then run defender, see what that brings up. No virus after that should tell you who put the virus there.
If you're going to pay for antivirus, then like always, don't buy cr*p. Get Norton, or McAfee (https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus.html. McAfee: https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus.html Imho, removing Norton can be far far far worse then any worse virus ever made. Hence, imho, Norton can shove their VIRUS-LIKE software up their ********! If you never ever ever ever ever ever ever want to remove, nor unsubscribe from Norton, then Norton can be a good option.
First rule in troubleshooting: Always look where you've been. If I'm reading this right, you're not getting slimed. Spouse is. Statistically speaking it's probably HER using a glass babysitter. In other words, it's either HER walking on the wild side while she's a geo-batch, or it's the grands. My bet is.....the grands. (how old are they???) As mentioned above, sometimes commercial virus software can be a little.....clingy. Like......you're going to have a rabbit boiling on your stove, clingy, As mentioned above, I would consider one of the bigs and then commit yourself to a long term relationship. One alternative strategery that might serve as a troubleshooting aid would be to get the grands some burner glass, firewalling them completely from your ISP....which is where most of the 'spying' REALLY comes from. If you give the grands screens that are 'screened' from your spouses' screen, and she still gets slimed then you have what the intel folks call.......'an indicator'. It might be that your sweet spouse is a babe in the woods, stepping into a LOT of tripwires that lead to her getting slimed rather than the grandbabies watching one too many episodes of Peppa Pig. So... My advice? Do both. Hook your wife up with McAfee AND get the kids some burners. -best of luck!
I've been using the free Spybot for malware for years. They have pay and donate products that include antivirus. Unlike other products, it never hassled me when I didn't have the program open. The laptop came with a trial period of McAfee, and it repeated notifications to sign up was enough for me to never consider it. Spybot Free Edition - Spybot Anti-Malware and Antivirus : Spybot Anti-Malware and Antivirus
I had BitDefender for quite a few years, then just went back to Windows Defender (nothing more), no issues.
