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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 948506" data-attributes="member: 31436">They don&#039;t buy third party antiviruses because MD is included with Windows and is free, as a result many couldn&#039;t be bothered switching antiviruses.&nbsp; There&#039;s nothing wrong with that, as it is a decent antivirus.&nbsp; However, there&#039;s also nothing wrong with a good third party antiviruses, which provides comparable or better protection.&nbsp; If MD was not included with Windows, then far fewer people would use it.Actually, I misread what you posted.&nbsp; You wrote &quot;many never have a serious infection,&quot; which is I misread as never getting infected.MD causes slowdowns for people with SSDs as well as those with hard drives.&nbsp; The slow-downs I&#039;ve seen from MD, have been caused by CPU use, not disk use, so the type of storage used is irrelevant, and I have witnessed one of my own systems, which has a SSD, running much slower with MD than with a third party antivirus.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 948506, member: 31436"] They don't buy third party antiviruses because MD is included with Windows and is free, as a result many couldn't be bothered switching antiviruses. There's nothing wrong with that, as it is a decent antivirus. However, there's also nothing wrong with a good third party antiviruses, which provides comparable or better protection. If MD was not included with Windows, then far fewer people would use it. Actually, I misread what you posted. You wrote "many never have a serious infection," which is I misread as never getting infected. MD causes slowdowns for people with SSDs as well as those with hard drives. The slow-downs I've seen from MD, have been caused by CPU use, not disk use, so the type of storage used is irrelevant, and I have witnessed one of my own systems, which has a SSD, running much slower with MD than with a third party antivirus. [/QUOTE]

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