WD.... is it really that bad...?

Tabvla said:

Magazine AV reviews always rate Windows Defender as terrible... worse than useless.... junk..... and other less than complementary comments.

Are these justified...?

For example, let us take the review in the August 2018 edition of Computer Shopper.... and I quote....

".....we simply cannot stress enough just how bad the protection you get from Windows Defender is. If you are using it switch to something else immediately...... if you are relying solely on Windows Defender, all we can say is stop now and use one of the packages that we have on test....."

Since the release of W10 I have had all my W10 machines using Windows Defender. Once a week I run an independent Malware and Anti Virus scan. In all this time the weekly scans have NEVER detected something that WD missed. My computers are connected to the Internet 24/7 and some are used for online research by non-tech users, who have little regard for security.

Perhaps magazine reviewers are subconsciously biased towards vendors that provide the magazine with lucrative advertising revenue...?

T.

Permit me to partial quoting what member jimbo45 has posted :
………….like all these things it really depends on what you do on your computer -- in any case the best A/V is actually YOU. !!!
………….Unless you are a huge user of sites like "The P***** Bay" or similar downloading huge amounts of pirated content you are unlikely to get riddled with serious viruses anyway these days.
………….Personally I don't see what any A/V could do to defend you against scams such as what appear to be genuine Govt / Banks etc sending emails that you are due a refund please click !!!!
………….You are more likely to get scammed via identity fraud, "cloned" websites etc etc than get infected with malware even if you only have WD on your system. No A/V software can prevent those sorts of attacks.

I believe that says it all.

P.S. I am one of those using WD only. Not even free edition of Malwarebytes.
I have 5 computers , all same setup. That's about 3 years now. No virus issue at all.

CountMike said:

I just opened a page and guess what:
Attachment 193269
The page is: Consistent Motherboard (CMB-945) CONSISTENT If using another AV, try to open it.

After reading this and the comments below I decided to install Norton and see what happens......Norton did not like the site your link directed us to either....

Hi folks

AutoKMS is often used to bypass Ms activation stuff so how it got on to your system ???? - Usually this type of program comes from those "unofficial" sites containing pirated copy of software.

Anyway WD detected it so simply remove it.

Personally for Internet surfing these days I prefer to use a VM or a totally Sandboxed machine so if anything gets hosed up just delete the VM / Sandboxed data and your main machine should be OK.


Cheers
jimbo