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Is the improved performance of Microsoft Defender a myth? Should we necessarily be using a 3rd party AV?
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<blockquote data-quote="ScandinavianFish" data-source="post: 968704" data-attributes="member: 93786"><p>At default settings WD is sub-par, but properly hardening it using Group Policy or ConfigureDefender it is more than a match for third party AV's, since you now get almost the same protection that Microsoft Defender ATP offers for businesses, and its in many ways better than almost all AV's in the fact they have dedicated protection against PUP's, even ones not yet in their database, like Malwarebytes and Kaspersky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScandinavianFish, post: 968704, member: 93786"] At default settings WD is sub-par, but properly hardening it using Group Policy or ConfigureDefender it is more than a match for third party AV's, since you now get almost the same protection that Microsoft Defender ATP offers for businesses, and its in many ways better than almost all AV's in the fact they have dedicated protection against PUP's, even ones not yet in their database, like Malwarebytes and Kaspersky [/QUOTE]
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