Antivirus for windows 10 laptop

[guest_27]

Hi,

Recently I got a new windows 10 HP laptop, and I'm not very familiar with how computer antiviruses work but it seems that I may have inadvertently installed Mcafee on my laptop. Is Mcafee necessary since I already have defender installed on my pc or is it good to have both? Defender comes with the computer automatically correct?

[SuperDave]

Windows Defender is really all you will need. Many new computers come with another AV installed but you can remove them.

[Lisa_maree]

I would uninstall Mcafee and just stick with Windows security (defender). One thing which is good to do is make a backup to an external hard drive.

Windows 10 and 11 has a tool to do backups, see here for method.   https://www.windowscentral.com/how-make-full-backup-windows-10
 

[guest_27]

Hi guys, thanks for the responses.

I'm going to go ahead and safely uninstall Mcafee as suggested, I must have installed it unknowingly, because on my previous windows 10 computer all I had was windows security and that always worked out for me but I guess as you mentioned, SuperDave it could have come installed since this computer fairly new(few months)

And thanks Lisa_maree for linking me to the tool for backups, will go ahead and do that. How often would you recommend is it good to backup to an external hard drive?