They say, Windows Defender is the lightest antivirus, Little did they know

>mcafee and avast near the bottom
Hold on, I can't stop laughing.

This is why i always remove Defender from the install.wim offline image of Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019. Defender is not only resource-hungry shitty antivirus, but it has also largest false positives detection ratio, very often it flags clean files as malware, never had this problem with ESET.

>Not knowing that Tencent make one of the best general PC management and antivirus software suites around
>You just have to sell your soul to use it (it's pretty comfy)

Hello,

I see ESET is in the #1 position.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Who has ever said that? Defender was proven to be shit the day it was released.

All it does now it is actively scan your files to report to MS servers

Who needs to write malware software when the OS and antivirus software itself is the virus

you never had this problem with eset because eset has the largest percentage of missed viruses. defender has zero. now you tell me which is better.

Isn't Kaspersky proven to be backdoored to Moscow?

hey

No proof whatsoever
It just detected some government malware like it should and sent a sample back

yeah, proven by hillary clinton herself

I can vouch for McAfee. It's super lightweight.

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Friendly reminded that Windows Defender is """protected""" with fucking UAC

>antivirus.

Seriously. This has to be paid. When McAfee starts (at my work computer, I wouldn't want it for free), I can't do shit anymore. And it basically always runs. It's on-access-scanner makes sure the computer crawls even when the daily scan process is finished. Oh, and when that's finished the backup manager runs and volume shadow copy kills my perf. Sometimes they even run together and the scanner slows down the backup because it HAS to approve every single fucking file.

How my employer is expecting me to get anything done is beyond me.

I hate "Security Tools" so fucking much. Even my employer doesn't think this shit will ever find anything, they just have it for ensurance reasons.

So, which do I install if I want basic protection from known malware, but not something that will slow my system to a crawl for free?

common sense 2020

I use that and I didn't have a positive in 12 years or so. But is it really alright to not use any protection?

No. There is no public evidence at this time that Kaspersky is compromised, and the company has been going to great lengths to assure people of that fact.

The issue is that even if Kaspersky Lab's products are clean today, that doesn't mean that they won't be compromised at some future point. That's a risk with any 3rd party software product, but U.S. government organizations have been basically forced off of foreign AV developed in countries they don't have a great relationship with. I can't blame them. If you're a business and going to be compromised by a government, it's best for that government to be your own, as they are less likely to use your secrets against the organization.

that's ok for us, every country has right to decide what goes on it's government machines.
however it's not ok to force other countries to make the same choice, blaming it on spying like that huawei shit

I would never give China the benefit of the doubt under any circumstances. They are the type of entity that will pursue its interests at all costs.

The Huawei stuff could've been made up, sure. But the fact that a lot of people took it at face value says something about their reputation, and there are documented spying attempts from the Chinese government using companies as proxies... It would be risky to give them the benefit of "innocent until proven guilty".

No

>EU: No evidence of Kaspersky spying despite 'confirmed malicious' classification

zdnet.com/article/eu-no-evidence-of-kaspersky-spying-despite-confirmed-malicious-classification/

do not disable defender. that is all.

us was literaly caught spying on merkel, i don't see many argue against us tech because of "reputation"

feed anything you've downloaded but don't trust into virustotal.com
don't run pirated software, browse porn sites, or use an outdated .PDF reader on your banking machine
clamwin is acceptable as an on-demand scanner (you wouldn't want it as a real-time scanner though)

Whataboutism isn't an argument. I'm not saying that the U.S. doesn't stoop to the lows that the Chinese / Russians do, I'm just saying that if you are a U.S. company or agency you should be using a U.S. or U.S. ally vendor's hardware/software where possible in order to minimize organizational risk.

Win 10 comes with windows defender so you're already protected, with Win 7 you need to install a third party anti-virus/malware program.

In my case on my Win 7 box i use SysHardener and OSArmor

that's ok for us, not ok to force on other countries

>caring about performance
Any decent CPU from the last 10 years and an SSD you won't even notice a difference

I agree.
BTW are you in Mumbay? Wanna hang out?