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Windows Defender (also Microsoft Security Essentials MSE) - Mini-Review

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Curt:
With a lifetime key, I am a long time user of Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro. But I too have made the swift to MSE ("4.8.204.0" since yesterday) because there is never any fuss, it is always working, and working discretely.
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Innuendo:
With a lifetime key, I am a long time user of Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro. But I too have made the swift to MSE ("4.8.204.0" since yesterday) because there is never any fuss, it is always working, and working discretely.
 :up:-Curt (May 14, 2015, 07:56 AM)
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With MSE there is never any fuss because it rarely detects any malware on a person's system...even when you are sitting and watching all your files be deleted. If you want a free alternative to paid solutions, give BitDefender Free a look. It has excellent detection rates & doesn't beat you over the head with advertisements to purchase the pro version.

tomos:
If you want a free alternative to paid solutions, give BitDefender Free a look. It has excellent detection rates & doesn't beat you over the head with advertisements to purchase the pro version.
-Innuendo (May 17, 2015, 10:09 AM)
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odd, they dont seem to give any reason to buy the full version (or did I miss it?)
I mean why bother paying 60$ if the free version is so good?

IainB:
UPDATE 2017-02-02: Given that there has been some recent discussion on some blogs/forums by "technical IT people with no axe to grind and who could be expected to know what they were talking about" regarding the merits (or otherwise) of some AV (Anti-Virus) products, I thought I should update this thread (and the opening post of this Mini-Review) accordingly.
So I shall add: Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?

In the ongoing discussions, there was a general argument that most AV products could be akin to a scam and in some cases as bad as a virus, with the sole exception of Microsoft's MSE/Defender.

I found this interesting because I had independently - and based on experience - already arrived at this potential conclusion some years back. In particular, for example, the experience of Norton/Symantec AV, as an OEM install, being notoriously cuckoo-like and hostile to other AV software to the extent that it blocks out Defender and puts hooks all over the ruddy registry - so much so that it even needs to have it's own special tool made by Symantec, to completely expunge it from the OS. Hence, "Like a virus."



As it says in the OP review notes:
Conclusions:
Windows Defender aka MSE is an excellent AV tool. Performs as designed, and very well.
There are other AV tools, but to a large extent they would seem to have been eclipsed or made redundant by Defender/MSE, as the latter would now seem to be the de facto anti-virus application and virtually a no-brainer for the majority of PC users
-IainB (December 04, 2012, 08:02 PM)
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