[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

It's not rocket science. My mother is pretty tech illiterate but she's never gotten any viruses after I hosed the Win Defender off her laptop. She literally just checks her mail, streams netflix and visits a handful of news websites. Lots of users are like this. They can get by fine just with an adblocker and an occasional scan to be sure. Scanning the disk constantly is just ridiculous.

[tpush]

> [...] she's never gotten any viruses after I hosed the Win Defender off her laptop.

How would you (or she!) know that?

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

I do a basic service when I visit, including a malware scan.

[SleepyMyroslav]

anecdote to the contrary:

>visits a handful of news websites

That's exactly how I got my only zero day virus in 20+ years of tech career. News sites have sources. Some news are rumors. It was very long ago and i pressed source link to 'semi accurate' tech news source in a news about CPUs.

Your best bet is to replace hdd with ssd or replace laptop and turn everything to 'recommended' or even 'security recommended'. Yes 8ms delays on some file opens will be there but people can live with that.