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> The built-in Windows defense tool – appropriately called Windows Defender – has gone from being virtually useless to pretty robust and experts agree that it’s
by hu3 3y ago
> The built-in Windows defense tool – appropriately called Windows Defender – has gone from being virtually useless to pretty robust and experts agree that it’s adequate for most users.
Agreed. Last time I saw a third-party antivirus in a Windows machine was 10 years ago and it was due to company policy.
- dlahoda 3y agoone of reasons i switched from win11 is that it was eating 100% of my cpu robustly.
- hu3 3y agoInteresting. I'm currently in a client issued laptop. i7 11800H, 32GB RAM, RTX 3060. Not bad but not a speed demon either. cpu barely has to work and I have tons of tabs, youtube, twitch, docker containers, 3 IDEs open including IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 3 different database servers running (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDb) and Google Drive is uploading some pictures. CPU tends to hover around 20% and hardly goes over 40% as you can see here: https://i.imgur.com/Yxa23Sn.png https://i.imgur.com/Yxa23Sn.png
- utensil4778 3y agoTrying to convince my boss to let me run Linux because Defender sucks up 90% of my CPU monitoring my compiler. My builds go from ~5 minutes to ~30 seconds by running the build inside a basic Linux VM on the same hardware. I've exempted every compiler process, all the files, the directories, everything. And yet I still see 90% "system" CPU usage while GCC gets whatever idle time is left. It's the literal worst.
- 0xDEADFED5 3y agoDefender seems more aggressive than usual lately. I keep it mostly disabled for the time being. JetBrains for a while now has a pop-up in their IDEs on new project asking if you want to exempt that folder from scanning, but obviously that only helps if you have those permissions =\
- schleck8 3y agoI see third party antivirus all the time. Specifically I've seen Setinel One and Sophos in enterprise applications like hospitals. I'm pretty sure the enterprise version of Defender costs money so you might as well use an alternative that better fits your admins' needs etc.
- nitwit005 3y agoSometimes I suspect they know it's a placebo, but don't care. Hospital admin fears ransomware, so all machines naturally need anti-virus. They go home feeling better.