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It's not as if the first party antivirus inspires any confidence, either. It still loses in performance to some 3rd party ones, and has had its own list of secu
by AshamedCaptain 5y ago
It's not as if the first party antivirus inspires any confidence, either. It still loses in performance to some 3rd party ones, and has had its own list of security issues.
For those who remember, its early versions (before the MS acquisition) required the Visual Basic runtime.
- ssklash 5y agoThe current Windows Defender is not the crappy old MS AV it used to be. It's gotten drastically better, and for normal home users I always recommend it over installing any 3rd party AV. I'm a pentester and red teamer, and yes, bypassing Defender isn't all that hard, but neither are most 3rd party AVs, and Defender does not bring in all the instability and additional attack surface. Also I think it can take advantage of newer kernel APIs that non-MS AV can't.
- floatboth 5y agoDefender still introduces performance issues, sometimes it's better to disable Defender too and have no scanning crap whatsoever.