Microsoft Defender Home failed AV-TEST best anti-virus 2021

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https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-defender-for-home-users-fails-to-win-any-of-av-test039s-best-anti-virus-2021-awards/

..For Windows, three awards were given for three different categories:

Best Protection
Best Performance
Best Usability

Defender failed to secure any of the categories for its consumer product.

Best Protection

Bitdefender
Kaspersky
Norton 360

Best Performance

ESET
G DATA
Kaspersky
Norton 360
PC Matic
Protected.net Total AV

Best Usability

Avira
ESET..

https://www.av-test.org/en/news/av-test-award-2021-the-best-in-it-security/

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Those awards are for the whole of 2021. Interesting that the latest tests they did in November and December 2021 show pretty much perfect results for Defender (which is what I’m currently intending to use when BitDefender Free stops being free later this year).

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/december-2021/microsoft-defender-4.18-211616/

Windows 10 Home 22H2, Acer Aspire TC-1660 desktop + LibreOffice, non-techie

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I have been using Defender with Malwarebytes Premium which expires in 2 weeks. I am not going to renew my subscription.  Is anyone using Defender + another A/V? (I know MBAM worked well with Defender, but I am unhappy with the company for a number of reasons and no longer wish to continue my subscription).  Is there a need to run anything else aside from Defender? I was thinking that + some standalone scanners, e.g superantispyware and one of the others out there – I don’t know ! I’m open to suggestions, thanks! Donna

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You should not run more than one real-time a/v product. Malwarebytes is the exception.

I run Defender only for a real-time scanner. Then at least monthly I run a full scan with the free version of Malwarebytes. Then I run another third-party online scan. Usually, that is ESET but sometimes I find something else. That gives me three different opinions and I’ve never had a malware issue.

--Joe

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thank you Joe, that sounds good to me.   Would you mind posting the link for ESET scanner ?  I know MBAM.   I know there are other scanners, but I just have to do a little footwork to find the good ones.

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Here it is – Free Virus Scan | Online Virus Scan from ESET | ESET

--Joe

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See thread regarding whether to use Kaspersky in light of Russian attacks on Ukraine 😉

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Microsoft Defender Home failed AV-TEST best anti-virus 2021

That is a seriously misleading title.
There is no Defender Home.
It did not fail anything.
It scored “best corporate”.

3 out of 10, Alex must do better.  🙂

cheers, Paul

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Microsoft Defender for home users vs Corporate. It is not the same.

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