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Somehow Microsoft pulled it off, somehow they made product that performs well. Alternatively, what does this say about the rest of the industry? If the company that cant update it's own hallmark operating system without breaking it or deleting all its users files in certain folders can make a better antivirus, should we be worried?

 

PC Magazine reports on a softpedia article about the recent battery of tests to determine the best current rendition of AV available for windows machines and has determined that Windows Defender has learned its top award, with Webroot coming in last and several big names like Avadt, Bitdefender and F Secure coming in close second in terms of performance. 

 

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https://www.pcmag.com/news/369979/windows-defender-achieves-best-antivirus-status

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As a MacOS user these concepts are very foreign and hard to understand. Macs don't get viruses. 

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They must be wrong, but don't worry, the next 50 posts will explain why...

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2 minutes ago, floofer said:

As a MacOS user these concepts are very foreign and hard to understand. Macs don't get viruses. 

macs do get viruses; it's just that windows is more popular so it's targeted more. if you don't believe me here's linus to tell you

 

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I heard Microsoft are changing their buit in AV Windows Defender to Microsoft Defender, it's gotta be very big changed

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3 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

i can't remember the point where i went from "just get a free one from some reputable company" to "just use windows 10 defender", and I can't remember why... o_o

I think most people made that switch when they made the switch from windows 7 to 10.

Like, when most people buy a pc or upgrade them they sometimes ask "what antivirus do i need?" and the answer when they are on w10 is always "it's built-in, you don't need to worry about that" and that's basically it usually.

 

You do get the random derp that wants whatever anti-virus he used for years and usually pays for it too but that's fine.

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4 minutes ago, Dogeystyle said:

Wait a minute, that's illegal

What?

 

 

Seeing how Defender was always a useless POS at the very bottom i highly doubt this is genuine and not a paid for thing....

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That title (though to be fair, also the title of the source article, and in turn, even the award this is describing) is misleading.  It won the "best antivirus" award, which contrary to what the name would seem to imply is not actually an indication that it's better than all others, just that it's of a high tier that only few have reached.  Just as an extra indicator of how messed up these names are, they have a second place prize for a variety of things that didn't quite make the "best antivirus" cut, called "top product".  Wonderful /s

 

And of course that's to say nothing of the questionable nature of the tests.  Some of the things that also ranked well make me wonder.  It would be good to get more details on what and how things were tested and weighted in the scoring as well.

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7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

That title (though to be fair, also the title of the source article, and in turn, even the award this is describing) is misleading.  It won the "best antivirus" award, which contrary to what the name would seem to imply is not actually an indication that it's better than all others, just that it's of a high tier that only few have reached.

I'd still rather use Defender than Symantec though, they earned my hatred many times lol

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32 minutes ago, floofer said:

As a MacOS user these concepts are very foreign and hard to understand. Macs don't get viruses. 

You must be dreaming, Mac can get viruses especially when there considerably a larger user based now so more people are developing for it.

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18 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

What?

 

 

Seeing how Defender was always a useless POS at the very bottom i highly doubt this is genuine and not a paid for thing....

AV-Test is independent and has been testing for a very long time, all results are archived on their site. They are one of the few places you can actually go find decent comparison of AV products, in the past Security Essentials (Defender) has not been great, even scoring a zero for protection but now today it's actually rather good.

 

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-vista/december-2010/

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-7/december-2014/

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/december-2018/

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/june-2019/

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Looking at it they were rated highest marks along with 3 other vendors. The other vendors generally get top marks by most testing suites. Unless Microsoft do the same or a lot more often I wouldn't pay much head to it.

For a standard home user they are generally enough though.

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Meh, I mostly just use security suites for their additional features, like ransomware protection and a good firewall that I can manage myself. (I know that technically, Windows Defender has "protected folders", but it's not enough... especially by how well hidden it is that most users will never even notice it exist...)

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I still don't understand how Windows Defender is getting flying colors for performance segment and the damn thing visibly slows to almost halt when scanning larger EXE files (like installers). On 12 threaded overclocked system with 32GB RAM and fast SSD. Yet in tests it's among the fastest. I just don't get it.

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7 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

I still don't understand how Windows Defender is getting flying colors for performance segment and the damn thing visibly slows to almost halt when scanning larger EXE files (like installers). On 12 threaded overclocked system with 32GB RAM and fast SSD. Yet in tests it's among the fastest. I just don't get it.

You might want to change how often it scans files. 

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As Windows Defender comes pre-installed with Windows 10, I'm not one bit surprised. It's been my anti-virus of choice as I don't want any 3rd party anti-virus program sucking up resources on my PC.

Windows Defender is decent for what it says on the tin, a basic anti-virus and general protective sidekick, nothing too in-depth or resource-heavy.

 

It is fairly good at detecting what it considers suspicious files, as there have been numerous times where I've been downloading game mods for Fallout 4 and such where Windows Defender was like "Whoa buddy, you sure you wanna download that?" which was a nice nudge on the shoulder.

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That's very good for built-in OS security tool. Great to see it improved and not feeling completely unprotected without any third party AV

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1 hour ago, leadeater said:

I'd still rather use Defender than Symantec though, they earned my hatred many times lol

Symantec: The AV that used all of my laptops 512MB of RAM. And wanted even more.

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Windows Defender is definitely the best at not bugging you to buy a paid version

 

Because you already spent $90+ on a Windows License

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58 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Symantec: The AV that used all of my laptops 512MB of RAM. And wanted even more.

You know almost 2 decades have passed since then and Norton changed dramatically?

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