Windows 10: Are these Anti-Virus / Firewall Apps OK? Window 10

I'm changing my current AV/Firewall App and so I searched using Bing for ideas. The results are below, some with my comments and I'd appreciate any advice from the experts here. I'd prefer to have the 'pay-for version.

Avast, TotalAV some issues with later huge increases in cost?, Kaspersky had it some years ago and it slowed down my laptop/ also in 2017 US Federal agencies were banned from using them over fears the firm has ties to state-sponsored spying programs , PCProtect, Norton, McAfee, Bit Defender, Avast, AVG, Bullguard and Malwarebytes.


I'm overwhelmed by the number of Apps that are available and so would appreciate some guidance. TIA

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Help With Choosing Anti-Virus Software

Hey guys

I would like to know what some of the best anti virus programs are.

I am currently running NOD32 and the Nvidia firewall (came with mobo) and I find they slow down my games (singleplayer)

The guys over in the gaming threads suggested to just disable them while playing but I'm not sure I want to just in case you know.

So yeah bassically if you could give me some suggestions for anti virus and I will probably go back to using the windows firewall instead.

 

multiple anti-virus and firewalls

I got a message from my Microsoft application "Support Assist" saying "You have more than 1 antivirus software enabled. This can lead to conflicts that may impact performance." This is on my Dell Inspiron AMD 3655 Desktop, with Windows 10 Home OS.

When I click on "details" in the message, Support Assist shows that I have:

2 "McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware" products enabled,

1 "McAfee Firewall" enabled and

1 "Windows Firewall" enabled.

Under Support Assist's "security" tab, "Windows Defender" is "disabled."

I can't find a way to disable the Windows Firewall, however, or 1 of the McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware products.

How do I disable any of these security programs? Or enable them in the future? Also, which Firewall protects my Dell Inspiron better, the McAfee or Windows Firewall? Is McAfee Anti-Virus/Spyware a better protector or Windows Defender?

Alternatively, is it worth it to keep the double anti-virus/spyware programs and firewall programs for my data's safety, even if it slows my computer's performance?

 

Problem with Anti-Virus/Firewall settings?

Yeah, I did restart my browser, didn't help though.

I don't have any Anti-Virus software on my computer, and I disabled Windows Firewall (the only firewall I have on my computer).

I'm really stumped.. this is really weird. I'm really starting to think I have some sort of really weird virus or something. I can't figure out what else it could be.

Any other suggestions? Thanks so much for the help so far guys.