Educate yourself on how to restore the computer from the rescue CD.

Save anything of value in 2 places. On your PC and off your PC on backup drive.

What might be of value?

A.Your internet links. All major browsers have built in tool to export your favorites, history, etc.

B. Sentimental photos/music/art

C. Financial or legal records.

With those 2 steps, you can get back up and running in an hour even with a complete hard drive wipe.

Hope that helps. I havent used an anti-virus app on my home PC in decades.

I don't want to draw a COVID paralell, but like the poster bubble_bursts points out,

The Anti-Virus vendors(think vaccine vendors) rely on fear of VIRUSES to sell AV PRODUCTS (vaccines).

Same business model. Wonder where Bill got the idea?

Educate yourself on how to restore the computer from the rescue CD.

Save anything of value in 2 places. On your PC and off your PC on backup drive.

What might be of value?

A.Your internet links. All major browsers have built in tool to export your favorites, history, etc.

B. Sentimental photos/music/art

C. Financial or legal records.

With those 2 steps, you can get back up and running in an hour even with a complete hard drive wipe.

Hope that helps. I havent used an anti-virus app on my home PC in decades.

I don't want to draw a COVID, but like the poster bubble_bursts points out,

The Anti-Virus vendors(think vaccine vendors) rely on fear of VIRUSES to sell AV PRODUCTS (vaccines).

Same business model. Wonder where Bill got the idea?