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Limp Gawd
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Hello.
I've purchased a new hybrid tablet/laptop for my mother for Christmas. It runs Windows 10 and I'll need to install some anti-virus protection for her so was hoping to get some recommendations.
I see there is a similar thread here about anti-virus recommendations, however, I have some specific requirements so I wanted to start a separate thread.
My mother is elderly and so the anti-virus package needs to be simple to use, largely invisible, and not too invasive on the machine. The updates need to be largely invisible, automated, and simple. The whole thing really needs to be simple for her. She doesn't know anything about anti-virus.
Free is, of course, great...however payware is fine too as long as the subscription model is easy.
Once installed, at a later date, if she wants to get rid of it I want it to not be too terribly invasive so it can be uninstalled completely.
On her current laptop, she had been running ESET NOD32. She isn't opposed to continuing to use ESET on the new machine, however she had a very bad experience with that company. They pushed out an update to her machine about a year ago and it borked everything badly. I don't know *what* it did to her machine, and I don't know if she played any part in it, but once that update was done it was really borked. I didn't know what it had done or how to fix it so she called their support and they were horribly un-helpful.
Thanks!
I've purchased a new hybrid tablet/laptop for my mother for Christmas. It runs Windows 10 and I'll need to install some anti-virus protection for her so was hoping to get some recommendations.
I see there is a similar thread here about anti-virus recommendations, however, I have some specific requirements so I wanted to start a separate thread.
My mother is elderly and so the anti-virus package needs to be simple to use, largely invisible, and not too invasive on the machine. The updates need to be largely invisible, automated, and simple. The whole thing really needs to be simple for her. She doesn't know anything about anti-virus.
Free is, of course, great...however payware is fine too as long as the subscription model is easy.
Once installed, at a later date, if she wants to get rid of it I want it to not be too terribly invasive so it can be uninstalled completely.
On her current laptop, she had been running ESET NOD32. She isn't opposed to continuing to use ESET on the new machine, however she had a very bad experience with that company. They pushed out an update to her machine about a year ago and it borked everything badly. I don't know *what* it did to her machine, and I don't know if she played any part in it, but once that update was done it was really borked. I didn't know what it had done or how to fix it so she called their support and they were horribly un-helpful.
Thanks!