Defender achieves best antivirus status.

Thought I would share this
Windows Defender Achieves 'Best Antivirus' Status

Hi there

@humbird

None of these "Post analysis" things are any good -- as it's impossible to replicate what individuals do on their machines and in any case new threats may come out long after the tests were done.

I do though think WD is good enough these days for the latest version of Windows 10 for Home computers --IMO rendering things like Malwarebytes and other 3rd party software a bit pointless these days -- again on HOME (not Enterprise computers).

In any case home users are much more likely to fall victims to scamming rather than malware these days and that is something only a Human Brain can defend against. You have to be doing really bonkersly weird things now to get any sort of malware on home computers --the Hacking Community has moved on to more profitable and possibly more destructive actions. Even torrent sites like the still surviving TPB don't want a load of malware for their users and have much better control of what's uploaded as well.

Most of the AV software I see on this section of the Forum was designed with last Century's OS'es and threats in mind -- W10 in 2019 is a totally different animal and is as well protected with WD than anything else --and it's also updated very frequently too.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi Jimbo,
Agreed. I have had Defender on my home laptop for a very long time. I think it has been doing a great job and has a much smaller footprint than many of the big name antivirus out there. It has advanced into a mature product and works in tandem with windows 10 home. Safe browsing habits, watching out what you download to your computer, and not opening emails with attachments goes a long way towards staying safe on the web.
Have a great day!

Been Using Defender on Laptop machine since purchased it on December 24th 2018, No issues detected, now if i can get myself to stop reinstalling Avast Free on the Desktop Machines, all would be perfect i do think. System cleanup on Desktop later on tonight though, so should be able to get stuff all sorted out

Yes no reason not to use Defender on your Desktop also. I believe Avast has a cleanup tool to completely remove it. Have fun with that cleanup tonight.

Yeah that should be fun part, cleanup (Not) but my own fault for reinstalling it... but should be fixable without much too trouble hopefully.

Here is the avast uninstaller utility if you want to use it.
Avast Uninstall Utility | Download aswClear for Avast Removal

Yeah already downloaded it, finished a few file backups, and will get the removal done in a few hours i'm thinking at moment

Good luck.

Sorry to interrupt, but I saw these AV test results today and was so gobsmacked I had to share.