I know independent AV tests have shown windows defender to have significantly improved in protection compared to earlier years. But there is a youtube channel that is known for it's dependable review of AV products with it's thorough testing. This channel checks the performance of AV products for known malware (using traditional signature based detection) as well as zero day attacks (using behavioral scanning, etc).
Below are it's findings:
After all this, iam wondering if paying for a really good 3rd party AV is worth it (not to mention addl featured included like secure browser for banking, etc)? Below are the review links.
Below are it's findings:
- Windows defender found only 80% of all sample malware used whereas the best 3rd party AV's have much much higher detection rate.
- Windows defender failed miserably to protect from ransomeware whereas kaspersky was near perfect and bitdefender was slightly lagging but still decent enough.
- It suggests to avoid windows firewall for reasons mentioned in below youtuve video and suggests using 3rd party firewall or hardware firewall if feasible.
- Below page does NOT contain any malicious content nor does it try to phish details, but by an industry wide agreement this page is detected as a page to be blocked so that people can verify if their anti-malware product’s detection capability is configured correctly. Windows defender didn't detect it.
After all this, iam wondering if paying for a really good 3rd party AV is worth it (not to mention addl featured included like secure browser for banking, etc)? Below are the review links.
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