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What is your opinion about Microsoft Windows Defender (Windows 10)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dex4Sure" data-source="post: 856578" data-attributes="member: 79841"><p>Unruly kids will turn off any AV, or infect the machine eventually by downloading possibly hundreds of executables over time... Eventually some zero day threats get past the AV and infect the system due to stupid user. All the "features" Windows Defender is lacking are mostly useless gimmicks, like "banking protection" which is just sandboxed browser window... You can do the same by using sandboxie and running the browser through sandbox, or I believe also with WDAG on Edge. Password manager, again you can use Bitwarden, LastPass or even Chrome's built in password manager... VPN, again the better VPN providers are not bundled with AV products. All these gimmicky "features" you are praising are in fact useless.</p><p></p><p>As I've said before, literally the only thing WD lacks that 3rd party AVs do have is caching. That is the only real drawback, others are imaginary drawbacks. There are plenty of people who think bloatware is useful, but those people tend to also fall for all kind of advertisement tricks. People who know better won't use these VPNs and password managers and "data protection" these 3rd party AV's bundle with them. For all these tasks there are better tools elsewhere. The very reason these AV companies bundle all that crap with their products is because they try to justify their existence.</p><p></p><p>EDIT:</p><p>Oh and also should just mention, if you have "unruly kids" you should not let them have access to admin account. Just create standard user account for them... Most infections are automatically blocked by doing this. Way better than just trusting 3rd party AV to keep them safe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dex4Sure, post: 856578, member: 79841"] Unruly kids will turn off any AV, or infect the machine eventually by downloading possibly hundreds of executables over time... Eventually some zero day threats get past the AV and infect the system due to stupid user. All the "features" Windows Defender is lacking are mostly useless gimmicks, like "banking protection" which is just sandboxed browser window... You can do the same by using sandboxie and running the browser through sandbox, or I believe also with WDAG on Edge. Password manager, again you can use Bitwarden, LastPass or even Chrome's built in password manager... VPN, again the better VPN providers are not bundled with AV products. All these gimmicky "features" you are praising are in fact useless. As I've said before, literally the only thing WD lacks that 3rd party AVs do have is caching. That is the only real drawback, others are imaginary drawbacks. There are plenty of people who think bloatware is useful, but those people tend to also fall for all kind of advertisement tricks. People who know better won't use these VPNs and password managers and "data protection" these 3rd party AV's bundle with them. For all these tasks there are better tools elsewhere. The very reason these AV companies bundle all that crap with their products is because they try to justify their existence. EDIT: Oh and also should just mention, if you have "unruly kids" you should not let them have access to admin account. Just create standard user account for them... Most infections are automatically blocked by doing this. Way better than just trusting 3rd party AV to keep them safe. [/QUOTE]
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