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<blockquote data-quote="Andrezj" data-source="post: 1014552" data-attributes="member: 97580">what a person does is far more important to their safety than what softwares they combine and use, but a place like this is hyper focused on security software and the localhostfor the neophyte that downloads whatever they want microsoft defender can end up not being enough, for the advanced security minded user microsoft defender probably is enough because even if they get infected they will know how to handle itsince there are no infection statistics per specific security software (there is, but it is highly guarded internal software publisher statistics) that anyone can reference, the discussion is highly flawed and problematic, but pointing users to use a better bandaid is better than nothingit should make you wonder why publishers do not openly share their infection rate statistics (even sanitized details that cannot be leveraged by bad actors)however, senior microsoft personnel stated that their s mode was highly secure giving them the best security results they ever had, since this is based upon actual deployment at scale (across millions of devices), you can intelligently infer what digital security philosophy, strategy and methods are not perfect, but highly effective</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrezj, post: 1014552, member: 97580"] what a person does is far more important to their safety than what softwares they combine and use, but a place like this is hyper focused on security software and the localhost for the neophyte that downloads whatever they want microsoft defender can end up not being enough, for the advanced security minded user microsoft defender probably is enough because even if they get infected they will know how to handle it since there are no infection statistics per specific security software (there is, but it is highly guarded internal software publisher statistics) that anyone can reference, the discussion is highly flawed and problematic, but pointing users to use a better bandaid is better than nothing it should make you wonder why publishers do not openly share their infection rate statistics (even sanitized details that cannot be leveraged by bad actors) however, senior microsoft personnel stated that their s mode was highly secure giving them the best security results they ever had, since this is based upon actual deployment at scale (across millions of devices), you can intelligently infer what digital security philosophy, strategy and methods are not perfect, but highly effective [/QUOTE]

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