I’ve just been using Windows Defender, but the number of false positives and the lack of autonomy in dealing with them is making me wanna look elsewhere.

  • Pirate2377@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Defender can be bypassed with a simple Powershell script iirc, so it can be trivial for malware to stay undetected from Windows Defender. While it’s good enough for most people, if you’re concerned with security I would suggest either Malware Bytes or Bit defender instead. At least, I heard both of those are decent. If not them, just avoid Norton and McAfee like the plague since you would rather just deal with malware than them

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      13 hours ago

      You need to explicitly grant the script admin access or have totally disabled UAC, which already punches a large hole through Windows’ security model. Malware that’s in that situation doesn’t need to block Defender to do harm.