antivirus Windows Defender or Other AV ?

[BlackSpecs]

Which is powerful ?

Defender or Other Antivirus ?

then what is it you recommend? 

Because evertime a Malware Attacks my PC , i feel like windows defender is having hard time handling it. So is it really worth buying other Anti Virus out there ? or is it same everywhere ?

 

[Canada EH]

Defender is ok with MSE.

Also CCleaner and Malwarebytes.

Then pick any of the other major brand name AV software, for free.

[TheWildOnesEU]

Anyone have any opinions on Norton or McAfee etc?

[Canada EH]

Norton is bloated and slows your system down.

McAfee is good.

[kirashi]

19 hours ago, BlackSpecs said:

Which is powerful ?

Defender or Other Antivirus ?

then what is it you recommend? 

Because evertime a Malware Attacks my PC , i feel like windows defender is having hard time handling it. So is it really worth buying other Anti Virus out there ? or is it same everywhere ?

 

Personally, I just use Defender, coupled with MBAM Premium and MBAM Anti-Exploit, but I'm a technician, so I usually avoid malware on the internet.

What are you doing online that's causing malware to attack your PC?

Although technically there's malware out there always scanning for holes in people's machines, a good router firewall will block most of these attempts, so there's gotta be something you're doing for your machine to be noticeably getting attacked.

3 hours ago, Canada EH said:

Norton is bloated and slows your system down.

McAfee is good.

9 hours ago, TheWildOnesEU said:

Anyone have any opinions on Norton or McAfee etc?

TRIGGERED, you said the "M" word. Excuse me while I wash my eyes out with bleach.

No, but seriously, I'd love to know what PC McAfee actually runs well on - although I hate on it a lot, there's gotta be certain hardware it does run well on.

I think what bothers me most is that Intel owns McAfee, but for whatever reason still hasn't managed to make it work smoothly on Intel based machines.

 

When I worked selling computers in a retail store, every single one of them absolutely choked running McAfee Scans, including the higher end machines.

Obviously, an i7 machine wouldn't slow to a crawl when running a scan like a Pentium machine might, but they were all much more noticeably slower than when I removed McAfee and loaded something like Kaspersky or ESET Node32 security on them. Even machines with SSD's seems to slow to a crawl...

[Canada EH]

I never knew that about McAfee

[xGGAx]

Windows Defender is pretty good, I use it on my pc. ESET Endpont is also decent but you have to pay for it. Other than that, most AV software is not so great. I have heard great things about Karpesky tho. Avoid McAfee, Norton or Avast. 
McAfee is the worst of all, poor detection and performance. Norton hogs resources even at idle(I havent used Norton since like 2006, not sure if they fixed it). Avast used to be ok, but I found out it has a bad detection algorithm. I just fixed a laptop that had avast on it. No viruses it said, yet Windows defender detected 2 Trojans.

[Canada EH]

I think Linus should do a vid on this!

[jeremymwilson]

On 11/6/2016 at 6:05 AM, BlackSpecs said:

Which is powerful ?

Defender or Other Antivirus ?

then what is it you recommend? 

Because evertime a Malware Attacks my PC , i feel like windows defender is having hard time handling it. So is it really worth buying other Anti Virus out there ? or is it same everywhere ?

 

Seriously, backup your data, perform a fresh install of Windows, check which ports are open on your router that shouldn't be and close them. You should NOT be getting lots of malware on your PC in 2016. 

 

Rant over. 

[Canada EH]

2 hours ago, jeremymwilson said:

Seriously, backup your data, perform a fresh install of Windows, check which ports are open on your router that shouldn't be and close them. You should NOT be getting lots of malware on your PC in 2016. 

 

Rant over. 

How do you check the ports?

[jeremymwilson]

10 hours ago, Canada EH said:

How do you check the ports?

For instance: http://www.portchecktool.com/