Windows 10: Protection Against Malware/Virus/Keyloggers

So i have an old dell xps 9550 laptop that i still have been using for a while. It has windows ten pro. It's my main laptop. With my laptop, I try to do my best of trying to avoid going on certain sites and clicking links etc. So because of that, a while back I got another computer, a chromebook to do my web browsing on sites where its possible to get virus... such as streaming sites etc. But I will most likely have to get another chromebook as the one im using has issues with the screen and keys.



Now of course, you could still always by accident click on something when using your main computer as you see there are tons of ads when web browsing. I use google chrome and have ad block plus on... but some sites for some reason still have ads... and you can easily click it by accident etc.



The only virus protection I have is the windows defender.. where i would click on it and then do a scan... option is quick scan and full scan. I would do the full scan few times. But back then i recall sometimes doing the microsoft defender offline scan as i read its even better... is that true? It does say on it.. some malicious software can be difficult to remove from your device and this would find and remove them using up to date threat definitions. So if you scan it full scan... i just did one right now that took about an hour and a half and it showed nothing. There is no point of doing a microsoft defender offline scan right? Its the same thing almost since i assume its only useful if the full scan detects something... but you can't remove it? But the offline scan would?



I also have malware bytes as well but haven't used it in a while. I just tried to open it... and i needed to do an update. After this... it seem to give me a two week free premium trial etc. So im using it right now. I did a scan... and it was so quick. Is there only one type of scan with malware bytes premium?



So does this mean if you do a malwarebyte premium scan... it took no more than like 5 minutes it seemed... then the machine is completely malware/virus/keylogger free? Or do programs like this not enough?

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Microsoft recommends the use of its own products and sites.

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/products

There does not exist 1 security product which is THE best and which will catch each and every infection..

Whenever you think that your computer might be infected you can run on-demand scans with some of the products listed here:

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