How good is the free version of Avira
Good free AVs - Kaspersky, Avira, Bitdefender (use one)
Good free firewalls - Comodo, ZoneAlarm (use one)
Good free second opinion scanners - Malwarebytes, Zemana (can use both)
Good free hosts/browser immunization - Spybot, SpywareBlaster (can use both)
Good free browser extensions - uBlock Origin, Ghostery, Malwarebytes Browser Guard, Avira Browser Safety, Emsisoft Browsers Security (can use some or all)
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If anyone has recently used the free version of Avira, please tell me your opinions. PS: it doesn't have web protection. It only has real-time protection. Isn't that ok? Even defender doesn't have web protection.
Edit: why I'm not using defender:
My pc no longer shuts down when fast startup is turned on. It was caused by an update. When I re installed the os the problem disappeared. I don't want windows updates to mess up my pc. So I disabled the update service. I want to keep updates disabled for atleast 3 months so that the problem might get fixed. In the intervening period I want to use another antivirus, because I won't be updating defender.
Good free AVs - Kaspersky, Avira, Bitdefender (use one)
Good free firewalls - Comodo, ZoneAlarm (use one)
Good free second opinion scanners - Malwarebytes, Zemana (can use both)
Good free hosts/browser immunization - Spybot, SpywareBlaster (can use both)
Good free browser extensions - uBlock Origin, Ghostery, Malwarebytes Browser Guard, Avira Browser Safety, Emsisoft Browsers Security (can use some or all)
I run free Avira on a VM that I use a lot. It's been fine for me.