AV Recommendations Request

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Hey all - what are you guys using for A/V these days? My Kaspersky license expires in a day and am considering a change. I'm not all that concerned by the reports of ties to Russia (Ok a bit) and haven't had any issues with it, but it's been a few years and might be time for a change.

Any recommendations are appreciated!
 
Using what's built-in with Windows 10 and good browsing habits with uBlock Origin. I also have Meraki MX with gateway antivirus running with URL filtering to block parked domains, malicious URLs, etc.
 
These days "rated well", "performs well" and "priced well" are overlapping in the oddest possible ways.

Some of the best RATED (this is for detection and prevention): http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart2&year=2017&month=Jul_Nov&sort=1&zoom=2

Some of the best PERFORMING (aka does it slow your computer?): http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart4&year=2017&month=10&sort=1

I'm personally using Avira's beta with Malwarebytes Antimalware, because I get it for free, but my go-to is Webroot combined with either Malwarebytes or Zemana Anti-Logger.

The only time I DON'T recommend Webroot is if you use an actual local mail program (like Outlook), since it doesn't scan mail at all. Not a problem for INCOMING mail, but just in case something gets through and gets sent OUT, you might have a miniscule chance to have something bad happen.
 
Windows 10 built in protection plus Malwarebytes Free to scan once in a while. In the win 7 days I rocked nothing because most of the free stuff sucked back then!
 
Rather than a per-host install (kind of a PITA w/ relatives, who incidentally have the worst security practices... oh you want to do a free scan of my C:? Sure!), I built the network to be resilient (L2 compartmentalization, etc):

1. Blocking bullshit user requests and risky packets: pfBlockerNG, countryblock, and ublock.
2. Cleaning things as they come in: squid w/ ClamAV (transparent proxy)
3. Observation of the network for funny business: Suricata
 
On Win10 box, just defender.
Pfsesnse blocking mst crap websites for family, only issue that came up recently was Osiris New Dawn servers hosted in some small country that was blocked.
NAS 95% locked down to root (read/write), everyone else has read, minus incoming folder which everyone can write to, and home folder. Go in and manually move keep files, rest is expendable. Backed up elsewhere.

Before window 8, Nod32.
 
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