![]() Guess we can’t all agree on everything hey? □įor a Free AV, Avast would be my personal recommendation. I’ve been a follower and fan of Fred Langa’s recommendations for a long time, but on this issue (as well as automatic software updating software) I think he’s got it completely wrong. Microsoft’s Anti-Virus protection offerings score so low that AV Comparatives generally don’t even bother including MSE results in their published result charts. □ Take a look at the monthly “Real-World Protection Tests” they do here MSE also has little effect on prevention as well imo. And on most systems, it has little effect on system resources. Try it you might like it! I do.Īs Fred Langa has said: Microsoft Security Essentials is free, in widespread use, and it has proven itself in the real world. There is minimal advertising for the “pro” version. A useful IE toolbar comes with it, checking for bad sights and there is a link to Panda Active Scan, a free on-line scanner. Well, my support for MSSE has also ended I am impressed by the UI and the fact that you don’t have to update virus definitions, as they are fetched from the “cloud” automatically when needed. I have been replacing MSSE with Panda Cloud AV free 2.3 on all my XP clients’ machines who were being hounded by the MS and MSSE pop-up messages that XP support has ended. MS Security Essentials was used as a baseline and is at the BOTTOM of the list for protection. Click on the header of the protection column to sort on that column and you will see that Panda Cloud Antivirus (free) ranks very well by itself and actually competes well with the better-known for pay programs tested. I was disappointed to read ’s 2014 testing results ( ) for Windows 7. Then getting a free 3rd party AV from either Kaspersky or Bitdefender would be the best.I have used MS Security Essentials for years, per Fred’s recommend ‘way back when. If you have a wide attack surface, for example a Laptop. So TL DR: If you're not using lots of unknown devices and not downloading sketchy things from Google, then Defender will be fine. (He's name is Can Değer if you want to search up) Some works better on Endpoint Security, and I was surprised that McAfee was used in Endpoint Security as Reactive security. Pick, Assemble and Install: Video Guideįor me, I've used Windows Defender for my Gaming PC because it is isolated from the outside world, I'm not inserting some random USB to it and only downloading games from Steam-Epic etc.īut for my School/Work laptop? I use Kaspersky free, whenever I'm at campus and in a lecture, sometimes I need to take some USB from my lecturers which is filled with god know what (they are a bit tech illiterate, so I've had some issues with their USB) the point is, if you have a high attack surface then Defender won't be enough because it is easily bypassed or disabled especially by ransomwares (trust me I've tried on my vm with myriads of viruses and ransomwares).Īlso, one of the cybersecurity expert I've been following for a long time mentioned not all Anti-Viruses created equally, some works great on Pro-Active and Active protection.No intentionally harmful, misleading or joke advice.No excessive posting (more than one submission in 24 hours).No selling, trading or requests for valuation.No self-promotion, advertising, begging, or surveys.No submissions about memes, jokes, meta, or hypothetical / dream builds.No titles that are all-caps, clickbait, PSAs, pro-tips or contain emoji.No submissions about retailer or customer service experiences. ![]() No submissions about sales, deals or unauthorized giveaways. ![]()
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