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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 721767">So ? - please read my reply carefully. I&#039;ve run Windows Defender for decades and never been infected because my system was not exposed to threats in the first place - which is my whole point. According to that guy&#039;s post logic, not being infected over decades using Windows Defender makes Windows Defender better than Webroot. And that just ain&#039;t true for a number of reasons. It&#039;s a &quot;populist&quot; measure, but the amount of time a system goes uninfected is not a validation of a security soft&#039;s protection quality - again for a number of reasons.Take a poll, most people who run an AV or internet security suite never have anything quarantined over a long period of time - sometimes many years. That&#039;s not because the installed security soft has such awesome protection, but much more likely due to the fact that their system has not been exposed to any attacks, malware has not been introduced to the system, etc. What is really protecting their system is probability and low-risk exposure. In other words, the system has managed to dodge bullets.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 721767"] So ? - please read my reply carefully. I've run Windows Defender for decades and never been infected because my system was not exposed to threats in the first place - which is my whole point. According to that guy's post logic, not being infected over decades using Windows Defender makes Windows Defender better than Webroot. And that just ain't true for a number of reasons. It's a "populist" measure, but the amount of time a system goes uninfected is not a validation of a security soft's protection quality - again for a number of reasons. Take a poll, most people who run an AV or internet security suite never have anything quarantined over a long period of time - sometimes many years. That's not because the installed security soft has such awesome protection, but much more likely due to the fact that their system has not been exposed to any attacks, malware has not been introduced to the system, etc. What is really protecting their system is probability and low-risk exposure. In other words, the system has managed to dodge bullets. [/QUOTE]

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