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Any suggestions for a good quality virus scanner in which I can have some confidence in regarding a reasonable choice in how it operates. If I'm understanding

Any suggestions for a good quality virus scanner in which I can have some confidence in regarding a reasonable choice in how it operates. If I'm understanding correctly Defender runs with high privilege and has a very large security footprint; as such I don't think it's something I want to run.

sxldier 9y ago
I'd recommend Avira.
acdha 9y ago
Everything on the market has had something like this bug. I'd stick with Defender simply because Microsoft will put the resources into dragging their coding practices out of the 90s and they're better about general QA testing.
user5994461 9y ago
>>> Any suggestions for a good quality virus scanner in which I can have some confidence in regarding a reasonable choice in how it operates. All antivirus operate like rootkits. It's basically a rootkit trying to block other rootkits to install. Microsoft has the advantage to have access to all windows API and they put a ton of efforts in testing/compatibility. It is the least worst of all evil.