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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1117245" data-attributes="member: 114717">Yes. Leo does not like Microsoft Defender because for unmanaged Windows for Home and Pro, the Microsoft Defender default configuration is insecure. Plus Controlled Folders protections are not that great.Backups are not relevant to how Microsoft Defender performs. They are a &quot;compensating control&quot; and the fact that such controls exist, does not forgive Microsoft for doing such a substandard job with Microsoft Defender on unmanaged, home systems.Windows security has and always be designed and intended to be managed by an administrator or cybersec professional that uses a full-stack of Zero Trust and Defense-in-Depth.Home users using unmanaged Windows for Home or Windows Pro are given an insecure-by-default operating system. At least the Pro users can harden their OS. And they should because Defender without default-deny is not enough.Microsoft Defender will always perform poorly in behavioral tests. Its capabilities in this area are not adequate.Hehe people who disagree vs Leo again.I guess I will have to explain what Leo demonstrated using VMRAY, which is despite the new ransomware using most of the typical ransomware behaviors, Microsoft missed it BECAUSE its behavioral blocking capability is weak. This is well known amongst those in the know, but obviously completely unknown and misunderstood on security forums.Microsoft Defender by itself is not enough. Now whether people believe it is equal to other security software, well - they are entitled to whatever they want to think or believe. Leo does not care if people use Microsoft Defender. Why would he? It&#039;s not his system. He makes a lot of money from people that use Microsoft Defender and it fails, and then call his company to figure out what went wrong, and fix the problem for the user.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1117245, member: 114717"] Yes. Leo does not like Microsoft Defender because for unmanaged Windows for Home and Pro, the Microsoft Defender default configuration is insecure. Plus Controlled Folders protections are not that great. Backups are not relevant to how Microsoft Defender performs. They are a "compensating control" and the fact that such controls exist, does not forgive Microsoft for doing such a substandard job with Microsoft Defender on unmanaged, home systems. Windows security has and always be designed and intended to be managed by an administrator or cybersec professional that uses a full-stack of Zero Trust and Defense-in-Depth. Home users using unmanaged Windows for Home or Windows Pro are given an insecure-by-default operating system. At least the Pro users can harden their OS. And they should because Defender without default-deny is not enough. Microsoft Defender will always perform poorly in behavioral tests. Its capabilities in this area are not adequate. Hehe people who disagree vs Leo again. I guess I will have to explain what Leo demonstrated using VMRAY, which is despite the new ransomware using most of the typical ransomware behaviors, Microsoft missed it [I]BECAUSE[/I] its behavioral blocking capability is weak. This is well known amongst those in the know, but obviously completely unknown and misunderstood on security forums. Microsoft Defender by itself is not enough. Now whether people believe it is equal to other security software, well - they are entitled to whatever they want to think or believe. Leo does not care if people use Microsoft Defender. Why would he? It's not his system. He makes a lot of money from people that use Microsoft Defender and it fails, and then call his company to figure out what went wrong, and fix the problem for the user. [/QUOTE]

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