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Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS
Even though the differences are subtle, MSE still lags behind most free AVs, which even right now, I got hired at a furniture wholesaler... The guy calls himself a SW Engineer, yet here's what I saw: Most computers are in pathetic condition... 2 out of 10 computers have NO AV at all, one has let the OEM Norton expire, and another only had MSE, and all of the computers in question had viruses and spyware. So, I pointed it out, and he installs MSE and scans it overnight. It gets rid of some, but not all; still some errors and popups here and there. So, I offer to take over and load up Avira, and it manages to find 200+ viruses on EACH computer (although most of them were tracking cookies in other user's %temp% folders, and the browsers had no popups/excess ads anymore.
The best of the best AVs are paid and not easily "bypassed", so that'll have to wait until my finances are a bit better... Otherwise I'd get a paid subscription for Hitman or BitDefender, which BitDefender has ranked among the top for many years through many reviews (though G Data is a combination of BitDefender and in-house technology I haven't checked them out yet), and Hitman goes DEEP as a 2nd-opinion scanner since it scans with a culmination of 6 different AVs/detectors. Of course, I'd use BitDefender free, but it doesn't allow you to exclude files, and since I deal with people in China and QQ is a must (it registers a false positive since Tencent, its parent company used to make spyware that is almost impossible to remove but that is ancient news from the early 2000s... Plus people from China are glued to QQ like crack even when Skype is a bit more universal and efficient).
http://dottech.org/14151/windows-bes...-avast-vs-avg/ |
Windows 8 comes standard with Windows Defender, which is not the same as previous Microsoft virus-ware. Windows Defender is an actual anti-virus program with real-time protection.
I would highly suggest that any Windows 8 users try out and look into their free and standard Windows Defender before paying for an anti-virus program or even downloading a free one....they often times take up a lot of RAM and Processing power unnecessarily so.
The only thing you might need to add to Windows Defender is a good malware removal tool, of which there are many that are free and easy to use (CC Cleaner, Spybot, ect.).