Do I need to do anything for security. I am only average level with Windows 21H2 22000.556

cineman195 said:

"Best Antivirus is between the two ears"
Somebody said that, anyway, if you are a normal windows user Defender is enough.
But if you are one of those who visits all the dubious sites, experiments with a variety of programs, installing/uninstalling, probably you need an additional safety program. Saving important files to another disk or the cloud and frequent imaging and keeping will be useful.

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+2 and recall the "Between the ears." I'm one of those that visits many sights that are informational. Or study a topic, etc. You never know if a site is safe or not, in my case. Sometime ago, I was using Defender only and visited a site, that injected Malware. Fortunately, Free Malwarebytes, took care of it. At the time, it was Win 8 and today, Defender in WIN 10, is great, but not total, in reading. Just my thoughts.

teeter said:

+2 and recall the "Between the ears." I'm one of those that visits many sights that are informational. Or study a topic, etc. You never know if a site is safe or not, in my case. Sometime ago, I was using Defender only and visited a site, that injected Malware. Fortunately, Free Malwarebytes, took care of it. At the time, it was Win 8 and today, Defender in WIN 10, is great, but not total, in reading. Just my thoughts.

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No security product is, in your words, "total". Nor can it be. I'm sure you've heard of the term "zero-day threat". Thats when a threat in the wild is so new that no security product can yet defend against it.

Microsoft has a lot riding on the reputation of their security product. They have an entire dedicated security support department active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (Unlike some advertised products out there that are supported only 8 hours a day and closed on weekends.)

I keep all my data and photos in my OneDrive folder. I have two local Microsoft File History air-gapped backups and 1TB of Microsoft OneDrive real-time off-site cloud backup. I use Microsoft Security (Defender). My data is secure.

I love it when I get a new computer. I log in to my Microsoft account, my 1TB of cloud OneDrive connects, and all my data is instantly there!

teeter said:

You never know if a site is safe or not, in my case. Sometime ago, I was using Defender only and visited a site, that injected Malware.

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As far as visiting dubious websites, you can install free Adguard or uBlockOrigin browser extensions, those surely would stop you from visiting those websites ?

Any added security is beneficial for more coverage protection, when doing a lot of internet/website searches, IMO. I just like the added assurance, especially with some VNP protection, in browsing, too. But that's me like many.

@TraderGary What Anti-Virus software are only supported 8 hours a day and closed on weekends??

I have to disagree with some comments, to much protection is NOT good, you could get conflicting reports & some will even slow down your computer ! So don't over do the protection you think you need !


Chuck