Windows Defender ?

[Pew]

Originally Posted by alarmguy

Common sense prevails on the internet and in decades of computing I never paid for antivirus software.
I am a firm believer that they cause (used to cause) more issues then actual virus threats.
(using up system resources ect)


This x100. Although I use BitDefender on all the work PCs for ease of management, Windows Defender does a pretty decent job nowadays. End User education should be the first and best line of defense though.

 

[dogememe]

Originally Posted by willbur
Originally Posted by Ed_T
Originally Posted by Donald
Malwarebytes


+1


Thank you. My understanding is Malwarebytes is good at finding and ridding a system of malware but not so good in detecting it before it is able to infect the system. Ideas/opinion?

The free version, yes, the paid version (which I run on everything) is an actual real time antivirus software as well.

 

[DZello]

I work as a system administrator for a little less than 20 years. Used a lot of antivirus in businesses and paid a lot for these too. In the latest independents tests, Microsoft's antivirus is rated along the bests commercial products. They use the same engine for Office 365. If you browse with your brain, don't click on everything and don't download too much crap, you'll be fine.

You can see there: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/
and there: https://www.av-comparatives.org/comparison/

 

[willbur]

I checked out Bitdefender and Kaspersky lab reviews. Bitdefender was over 500MB and Kaspersky a svelte 181MB! No thanks. ESET was 50 MB. Why were the first two so porky ?

 

[Triple_Se7en]

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted by willbur
I checked out Bitdefender and Kaspersky lab reviews. Bitdefender was over 500MB and Kaspersky a svelte 181MB! No thanks. ESET was 50 MB. Why were the first two so porky ?


We've got an Enterprise site license for ESET and I've been nothing but impressed with its performance. It's also, as you noted, quite lightweight.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted by dogememe
Originally Posted by willbur
Originally Posted by Ed_T
Originally Posted by Donald
Malwarebytes


+1


Thank you. My understanding is Malwarebytes is good at finding and ridding a system of malware but not so good in detecting it before it is able to infect the system. Ideas/opinion?

The free version, yes, the paid version (which I run on everything) is an actual real time antivirus software as well.


Yep, I run Malwarebytes Premium and it's full time active. Will even prevent you from opening a potentially dangerous website.