Don't buy an anti-virus - do THIS instead!

stop paying for an anti-virus for your windows 10 computer seriously stop it now if you're thinking whoa who would be crazy enough to connect to the internet today without an anti-virus you would be absolutely right but what you might not realize is that windows 10 actually has an anti-virus built right into the operating system so basically we've just been paying for an anti-virus because that's what we've done every single year but not anymore so you might have some questions like is windows 10 anti-virus really any good is it really free or is there a couple of catches we need to be aware of let's discuss all that and then i'll show you how to set yours up and yes it is absolutely free let's do this hey guys welcome back to the channel if this is your first time here my name is leron segev where i talk about wi-fi and gadget and tech tips and phones and how to if you're into that kind of stuff hit that subscribe button below and let's get on to today's show so just like you over the years i've been paying for some really great anti-virus software from companies like kaspersky and norton of course they come at a price but realistically that isn't so bad especially when you think about all those features they keep adding on into their programs however if you have a household full of computers and each one of those needs an anti-virus license and they don't use any of these features well things do start to add up now that my license is about to expire i decided to do a little bit of research to see what else is going on out there and that's when i discovered the microsoft defender anti-virus now yes that name isn't new that's been around for quite a while and let's be honest when it first came out it was actually uh horrible horrible but things changed fast forward to the may 2020 update for windows 10 and now the microsoft defender is actually built in to windows 10 as part of the windows security tools but is microsoft defender anti-virus any good will it really protect your system or is it one of those freebies that you kind of a little bit on the fence about well that was my question so i went to avtest.org and that essentially is an institution that runs constant test on antivirus and gives them a ranking this report was done in june of 2020 so it's obviously very up to date at the time of recording this as you can see it scored a good six out of six for being one of the top products i will have a link to this report in the description in case you want to go check it out the thing that is worth noticing is that sometimes it does do a false positive in other words it flags legitimate software as being an issue of course you can overwrite that within the program but hey it's just worth taking a note of that okay so six out of six that's done good let's go show you how to enable and what you actually get with windows defender right within your windows go to your search and then start typing windows security and then you'll see it pop up open up the screen right when that comes up you'll see it's made up of a whole bunch of applications all falling under windows security on the left hand side virus and threat protection is the one we're interested in and here is your windows defenders option now if you currently have an anti-virus installed on your computer you will not see these options as your anti-virus is responsible for managing your system however once you uninstall your current anti-virus well then the windows defender will then take its place and start defending your system so what options are we interested in here as you can see you've got the quick scan the deep scan as you normally would with any anti-virus virus and threat protection settings click on manage and here you just want to make sure all these things are on real-time cloud delivery protection automatic sample tamper protection i just have all these things on oh this is the important bit controlled folder access you want to click on managed and we want to make sure that this is on this is your anti ransomware protection you know those viruses on malware they get onto your machine encrypt your drive and they charge you a whole bunch of bitcoin in order to get access back to your own computer well once you have this on it will just make sure that those selected folders are actually protected and those malware can do nothing to you now you may be asking how often do the virus database gets updated the signatures well they get updated quite regularly they get updated automatically but of course if you want to you can click on check for updates just to force the latest update to happen right as we come in custom with every other anti-virus and since we're here we might as well discuss the great firewall that you actually get with your windows security and a firewall essentially what it does it looks at your traffic coming into your network out of your network to your computer away from your computer and it makes decisions whether it's allowed in or not allowed in you get this on some of the more advanced anti-virus programs but you get it here as part of windows security and as we go out there on the web we're browsing websites we're downloading files we're going to get additional protection by enabling the app and browser control every time we hit a site that's been reported as dodgy or as phishing scams or we try to download a zip file or an exe file that's full of malware this will protect us doesn't even allow us to download it to our computer and gives us all those beautiful beautiful warnings amazing stuff from windows security all built in and there we go another windows 10 tips for you check out more tips and tricks down here hit the head below to subscribe if this is your first time sharing give the video a thumbs up if you liked it and i'll see you in those videos thanks for hanging out i'll see you in those videos let's go

Channel: Liron Segev

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Keywords: liron segev, the techie guy, anti-virus, antivirus, antivirus software, malware, windows defender, windows defender antivirus, windows defender windows 10, enable windows defender, is windows defender good enough, windows defender vs antivirus, windows 10

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Length: 5min 45sec (345 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 28 2020