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-====== Malware ======
-The Computer Club web site has [[https://www.sctexas.org/club/scripts/memfac/memfac.asp?MFCODE=SIG_MAL#sidebar|pages]] that address malware.
-===== Malware attitude, today =====
-The past couple of years, Windows Defender has been adequate as an anti-virus tool in the home environment.   In the Help Center we do see client computers with other flavors of Anti-Virus and firewalls.   Most of the time we encourage the removal not-free anti-virus or firewall tools.   Why?   We prefer free.    Windows Defender is free and it works.
-However, you will see the Help Center use the free versions of Malwarebytes, CCleaner and Superantispyware to "disinfect" a computer.  These tools can be helpful on an infrequent basis, but if they are enabled to run at system boot time, it is likely they will make system boot appear to be slow,.