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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 978127" data-attributes="member: 83059">I’m not singling out Andy here. When I was casually testing a few AVs behavior blockers I heard from many users who wanted their favorite AV’s settings changed….. particularly ESET which has a dizzying number of options and I’m honestly not convinced half of the Low/Normal/Aggressive switches do anything. Defender is interesting especially in the consumer case where the performance is so drastically different between the default settings and the tweaked ones, but when testing, I think every product should be tested in its standard configuration for many reasons. First off, the majority of users will not be changing settings, and changing settings from their defaults requires keeping up to date on all the future changes that might conflict with your custom settings. Most users want their AV to be set it and forget it, especially for something like Defender that comes preinstalled.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 978127, member: 83059"] I’m not singling out Andy here. When I was casually testing a few AVs behavior blockers I heard from many users who wanted their favorite AV’s settings changed….. particularly ESET which has a dizzying number of options and I’m honestly not convinced half of the Low/Normal/Aggressive switches do anything. Defender is interesting especially in the consumer case where the performance is so drastically different between the default settings and the tweaked ones, but when testing, I think every product should be tested in its standard configuration for many reasons. First off, the majority of users will not be changing settings, and changing settings from their defaults requires keeping up to date on all the future changes that might conflict with your custom settings. Most users want their AV to be set it and forget it, especially for something like Defender that comes preinstalled. [/QUOTE]

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