Annoying Windows 10

[Lee Schierer]

I have active virus protection and malware detection, but apparently windows 10 doesn't like it. I have turned off the notifications in settings, but I still get warnings every few minutes while I'm on the computer. Is there any other way to turn off the annoying alerts?

I use F-prot for my virus protection but apparently windows 10 doesn't know it is there. I don't wan to change virus protection I just want to turn off the annoying reminders. Nor do I wish to go back to windows 8.

[Brian Henderson]

Uninstall Windows 10.

[Sean Troy]

I have active virus protection and malware detection, but apparently windows 10 doesn't like it. I have turned off the notifications in settings, but I still get warnings every few minutes while I'm on the computer. Is there any other way to turn off the annoying alerts?

What protection do you have?

[Mike Henderson]

I have AVG on Win 10 and no problems.

Mike

[Jim Becker]

Are you using Microsoft's AV solution or are you using a third party product? If the latter, be sure the former is turned off so there's no clashing. I frankly have just used the Microsoft solution for years now on any remaining Windows instances I have.

[Wade Lippman]

Are you using Microsoft's AV solution or are you using a third party product? If the latter, be sure the former is turned off so there's no clashing. I frankly have just used the Microsoft solution for years now on any remaining Windows instances I have.

Check the reviews. Microsoft AV is completely worthless.

[Dave Lehnert]

Check the reviews. Microsoft AV is completely worthless.

"Microsoft's Antivirus Scores Soar"

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492125,00.asp

[Art Mann]

My new windows 10 computer came with McAfee antivirus preinstalled. The software is so invasive and performance crippling that I would almost prefer to take my chances with no protection. To get rid of it, you have to download a special removal tool from their website. You can't just uninstall it. I have used AVG for many years and it isn't nearly as bad. The base version is free.

[Al Launier]

Kaspersky has been my AV choice for years & have not been disappointed with it.......................yet.

[Bruce Page]

Art, I banished McAfee a few years ago, it slowed my old XP computer to a stand still. It's a worse resource hog than Norton.
As I recall, getting rid of it wasn't easy either.

[Moses Yoder]

I use Avast free version with Windows 10 and have no problems with it. Probably not much help

[Gerry Grzadzinski]

To get rid of it, you have to download a special removal tool from their website. You can't just uninstall it. I have used AVG for many years and it isn't nearly as bad.

You need a special tool to uninstall AVG as well.

I've used Avira and Avast in the past, and while both were good, they do have a tendency to annoy you every now and then.
For the last year, I've been using the windows AV on 8.1 and it seems to work just fine, and you never know it's there.

[Art Mann]

"Microsoft's Antivirus Scores Soar"


http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492125,00.asp

In light of that report, I may just try the Microsoft product when the free subscription to McAfee expires.

[paul cottingham]

I don't know about now, but when i still owned my tech company, we would not, under any circumstances install AVG on a computer. We liked Avast, though. Hated McAfee as well. In fact, we often found the McAfee executable was the first program infected on a machine that had it installed on it.

the saying was "do you know what a technician calls an AVG user? A customer for virus removal."

as a further aside, i don't know if i would trust any review in a mainstream PC magazine. Not any more than I would for a mainstream woodworking mag.

[Art Mann]

Maybe AVG is no good but I have used it for close to 10 years and it has detected every virus that showed up on my computer. How do I know? I occasionally use a variety of other programs to double check the effectiveness of AVG and I have nevere detected a virus with any other product that slipped by AVG.