I often wonder, why is there even need to use any AV??
shouldn't users instead just change their "computer habits" instead and watch what they are doing?
I mean I use Windows Defender since it's existence and never got any detection,
Is that just me or Windows defender just doesn't work?
Sounds a lot like "I've never been robbed, therefore we don't need any police".
Defender works very well. You are fortunate or extremely careful in your browsing and E-mail habits, which is great. Most people are not that careful. I'm cautious but still get stuff once in a while. A lot of what I do here requires me to go places and look at sites I might otherwise not look at.
Malwarebytes catches most of it and Defender gets the rest.
Every AV gathers info, some more, some less, though Avast was really pushing too far.
Kaspersky is banned, because it uploaded NSA hack tools back to Russia for analysis.
Source: Is Your Antivirus Tracking You? - It is from 2014, it is much worse now.
Because it is more comfortable. It is like AV is an automatic transmission and no AV is using manual.
Not to mention marketing and scareware: You get infected within seconds using no AV on the internet.
It is just you, meaning, you would be perfectly fine without AV.
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