Tried to get to Q posts on my wife's laptop and get this...common?
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Can you elaborate on that? Most antivirus software really is bloatware, but at least with windows, I've sometimes gone as little as 10 min after internet connection before getting hit with some worm.
Windows 10 comes with antivirus built in and turned on. Installing another antivirus software first involves disabling the one that is already there.
Ok, that's one thing known for a while to not run multiple antivirus systems.
I thought it was something along the lines of how the antivirus creates "sandbox" environments to run code.
If you can't go 10 minutes online without a malware threat, then you're doing something incredibly silly over and over again or never got rid of it in the first place.
In fairness, that was 1 time. Did a clean install, installed all software before giving internet access and within 10 minutes the worm hit, that was windows XP time frame.
Sounds like you have hooked up your computer directly to the Internet, exposing All open ports. Could happen with fibre connections. Most cable and xDSL modems have a built-in WiFi and router with minimalistic Firewall functionality. With fibre, you have to get your own router. At least that is usually the case in my country.
Could also be your WiFi/router configured to allow incoming connections. Most equipment should be configured by default to block incoming connections.
Very likely, I knew nothing about configuring the router. (Now I know it is an option)
Actually, yes, that was windows XP.