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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (101009)	8/8/2018 11:44:15 PM
From: nicewatch	2 Recommendations Recommended By goldworldnet SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) Respond to of 110626

I use Bitdefender free version on an older ThinkPad laptop with win7 that is operating at all hours. It also runs Windows Defender, or whatever it's called in win7, and a lifetime license to real time Malwarebytes. Technically "they" say that's a big no-no, running so many simultaneous scanners but for the the most part I haven't noticed many problems or slow down. Of course your mileage may vary. Don't recall any Bitdefender free pop ups let alone trying to up-sell to a premium service, and it was installed on laptop almost two years ago. I always worry there are conflicts but for external or pop up site phishing the malwarebytes seems to respond first and often. Bitdefender, in my experience, works best as steering me away from potentially bad websites even if they often cast too wide a net and won't naturally allow me into reasonably safe sites. But I respect their hard line approach. Bitdefender free seems like a good free program to me but I would not use it as a standalone measure. The only negative I can think of, in my experience, is whatever self-updates the program does, perhaps every other month it will give me an error message and ask to restart pc because the self-update didn't properly auto-install itself. Nevertheless, that machine may run run many hours or days before it's restarted. But its software always seems ok and mostly self-corrective upon restart. FWIW! Free advice and worth every penny! ;-)