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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 1109522" data-attributes="member: 32260">The article presents the wrong comparison method. It will always show that Microsoft Defender is not better than any AV. When seeking malware that can compromise MD and then testing that malware against another AV, MD will always get the 0% protection result, and another AV can randomly score better (and never worse).We could get a similarly wrong result when seeking malware that can compromise a top AV and then testing that malware against MD.&nbsp; The top AV would always get the 0% protection result and MD could randomly score better (and never worse).If SafetyDetectives did their tests correctly (preserving AV symmetry), they could see after many tests that the differences in protection between many popular AVs are very small.Edit.If we include Windows SmartScreen file reputation (assuming that the user respects its alerts), then the differences in protection between MD and top AVs are negligible for non-enterprise users.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 1109522, member: 32260"] [B]The article presents the wrong comparison method. It will always show that Microsoft Defender is not better than any AV. [/B] When seeking malware that can compromise MD and then testing that malware against another AV, MD will always get the 0% protection result, and another AV can randomly score better (and never worse). We could get a similarly wrong result when seeking malware that can compromise a top AV and then testing that malware against MD. The top AV would always get the 0% protection result and MD could randomly score better (and never worse). If SafetyDetectives did their tests correctly (preserving AV symmetry), they could see after many tests that the differences in protection between many popular AVs are very small. Edit. If we include Windows SmartScreen file reputation (assuming that the user respects its alerts), then the differences in protection between MD and top AVs are negligible for non-enterprise users. [/QUOTE]

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