If anyone has a free alternative to Kaspersky that's effective, please feel free to post.
I like ccleaner.com (crap cleaner). It's free and I believe it's UK. And as I posted earlier I use microsoft defender. I don't like kaspersky (for the reasons you mentioned) nor do I like things like Norton and McAfee which are huge hogs of resources while they're running behind the scenes. It's just the wife and I (no kids or grandkids in our equipment) and we learned ages ago not to click on things that are sent our way. And then we have Lifelock for the unthinkable.
