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<blockquote data-quote="South Park" data-source="post: 845910" data-attributes="member: 73194"><p>In my experience, a content blocker like uBO or Nano blocker is even more important than an antivirus. I've had a few warnings and blocked pages from content blockers when seemingly trustworthy sites tried to redirect me to suspicious places. That said, I feel confident using Defender and the built-in Exploit Guard in Windows 10 (plus a NVT product on the side).</p><p></p><p>In the 15 years that I've used Windows Defender, its forerunner MSE, and Avast free on various computers, I've never had an infection as determined by a second-opinion scanner. The only time I got infected was while using Norton in 2003, and I once picked up an inert Java RE virus when using the now-defunct CA antivirus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="South Park, post: 845910, member: 73194"] In my experience, a content blocker like uBO or Nano blocker is even more important than an antivirus. I've had a few warnings and blocked pages from content blockers when seemingly trustworthy sites tried to redirect me to suspicious places. That said, I feel confident using Defender and the built-in Exploit Guard in Windows 10 (plus a NVT product on the side). In the 15 years that I've used Windows Defender, its forerunner MSE, and Avast free on various computers, I've never had an infection as determined by a second-opinion scanner. The only time I got infected was while using Norton in 2003, and I once picked up an inert Java RE virus when using the now-defunct CA antivirus. [/QUOTE]
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