- Dec 12, 2016
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Checkpoint is the best I seen against zero day pishing but not perfect because it's good mainly against stuff it's trained to detect , has enough similaritiesThank you so much @Shadowra for all the precious time you invested in sharing those reviews with us, highly appreciated!
Great to see that M$ Defender has grown strong over time, and even default config will most likely prevent damage from systems not actively monitored by their users, I think even M$ updates arrive and install automatically now?
Of course, there is never 100% safety, and I'd bet if you come across some 0day, or something not known by signatures yet, M$ Defender will struggle?
However, having tested many AVs in the past, there isn't any AV being bulletproof, if you try hard enough.
I think combining any widely known and reputated AV w/ safe browsing habits, with Adblocker + Bitdefender TrafficLight (or else), and double-checking .exe on VT before opening (of course, only using trusted downloads), you should be quite fine as regular user.
In corporate environment, you might be higher class target, however I think it's more a user fault (social engineering) in many cases than a AV defect.

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But currently there is no perfect solution against pishing but with checkpoint you can at least block majority of the ones that are very similar and those you probably would actually fall for