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Why are we even messing with anything other than WD these days?
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<blockquote data-quote="ncage" data-source="post: 821257" data-attributes="member: 62363"><p>So i'm wondering why we are even messing with anything else other than WD these days? WD does so good in most of the tests. Maybe it has slightly more FP but the protection seems to be first rate now. You don't have to sell your privacy to the devil (Avast/AVG) or deal with upsell popups. You don't have to screw with upgrading it from version to version (2018 to 2019 to 2020). You don't have to pay for expensive software licenses. I think WD is pretty good out of the box (default settings) and can be made better by hardening it. My main concern has always been 0 days and WD even seems to do good in the 0 day tests now.</p><p></p><p>So for my main workstation i don't have to worry because i use arch but i use LOTS of windows vms. I also protect my parents, wife, & kids computers. Currently i have a bitdefender family license. I'm happy with bitdefender in terms of protection but unhappy in terms of resource usage. Yes if you have a PC with lots of ram who cares right? But if your like me and runs lots of windows vms in hyper-v with dynamic memory bloat can greatly lower how man vms you can cram on a box. Also some PCs i administer don't have high specs. I was researching what AV product to replace with bitdefender. Then i was like why....wd is excellent now. Why even mess with it anymore? Why doesn't everyone just run WD and be done with it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ncage, post: 821257, member: 62363"] So i'm wondering why we are even messing with anything else other than WD these days? WD does so good in most of the tests. Maybe it has slightly more FP but the protection seems to be first rate now. You don't have to sell your privacy to the devil (Avast/AVG) or deal with upsell popups. You don't have to screw with upgrading it from version to version (2018 to 2019 to 2020). You don't have to pay for expensive software licenses. I think WD is pretty good out of the box (default settings) and can be made better by hardening it. My main concern has always been 0 days and WD even seems to do good in the 0 day tests now. So for my main workstation i don't have to worry because i use arch but i use LOTS of windows vms. I also protect my parents, wife, & kids computers. Currently i have a bitdefender family license. I'm happy with bitdefender in terms of protection but unhappy in terms of resource usage. Yes if you have a PC with lots of ram who cares right? But if your like me and runs lots of windows vms in hyper-v with dynamic memory bloat can greatly lower how man vms you can cram on a box. Also some PCs i administer don't have high specs. I was researching what AV product to replace with bitdefender. Then i was like why....wd is excellent now. Why even mess with it anymore? Why doesn't everyone just run WD and be done with it? [/QUOTE]
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