is windows defender good enough?

[knighttime]

or should i install avast?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It doesn't really matter; both of those are crap.
Get Malwarebytes Premium

[Takeda]

No its not at all, I had a virus and it said that it got rid of it but it didnt do anything i prefer AVG

[SenMithrarin85]

Its more effective than the windows 7 version was, but I would still go for a proper AV suite. The best ones aren't free though sadly. The free ones tend to come with adverts etc enbedded in them and other crap.

[knighttime]

i have windows 10

[[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman]

Pffffft. Bahahaha. Avast.

Do yourself a favour and get GFI or VIPRE plus Malwarebytes.

In over 10 years my brother and I have ***NEVER*** had it interfere with Steam or games downloading, nor any false positives.

[SenMithrarin85]

Kaspersky hasn't been too bad for me. Norton has been having a lot of FPs in recent times. Not to mention I don't trust cloud based scanners.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well yea, crap like AVG, Avast, Norton, McAfee should all be avoided.

[SenMithrarin85]

Escrito originalmente por Bad_Motha:

Well yea, crap like AVG, Avast, Norton, McAfee should all be avoided.

I don't know how mcafee still exists. That thing slowed my system to a crawl when I tried a trial of it one year.

[SmollBrain 🏹]

The modern version is plenty, it uses machine learning and has kernel access, no anti-malware/vius will do much better. It's free and no annoying nagging

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Escrito originalmente por B♥gel:

The modern version is plenty, it uses machine learning and has kernel access, no anti-malware/vius will do much better. It's free and no annoying nagging

You mean Defender? LOL, it's the main reason for Win10 running "slow"

[SmollBrain 🏹]

Escrito originalmente por Bad_Motha:

Escrito originalmente por B♥gel:

The modern version is plenty, it uses machine learning and has kernel access, no anti-malware/vius will do much better. It's free and no annoying nagging

You mean Defender? LOL, it's the main reason for Win10 running "slow"

I havent seen it using any more resources than other AV

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well it's just useless, doesn't catch harmful things...

And the user must still configure it properly, like excluding things like Steam root folder is very helpful.

[SmollBrain 🏹]

Escrito originalmente por Bad_Motha:

Well it's just useless, doesn't catch harmful things...

And the user must still configure it properly, like excluding things like Steam root folder is very helpful.

Realistically no other AV will catch a real threat that's not in it's definitions either. Heuristics are useless against encryption and polymorphism

[tacoshy]

Escrito originalmente por B♥gel:

Escrito originalmente por Bad_Motha:

Well it's just useless, doesn't catch harmful things...

And the user must still configure it properly, like excluding things like Steam root folder is very helpful.

Realistically no other AV will catch a real threat that's not in it's definitions either. Heuristics are useless against encryption and polymorphism

and for that exact same reason I dont use an AV at all... I dont download despite on trusted sites like steam itself and dont atatch massdrives that I dont know outside of containers

[Azza ☠]

Windows Defender isn't even classified as an anti-virus.

It was designed to stop a mass spreading BotNet (hackers infected unsecured pcs with remote access backdoors to ddos, spam, and bounce attacks off). Windows merely updates it with the most commonly known virus definations to clean.

It scores 0.5 out of 5 in protection levels with AV Testing.

On the other hand, application control + firewall was considered the best performance and protection. Such as Kaspersky Internet Security or MalwareBytes, scoring 4.9 out of 5.