Defender being just as good or better ,
I am not up to date on this, because I haven't used Windows Defender in the last few years. But unless it got improved seriously, and I mean by a LOT, then it is not something I would dare to say. It used to be like this:
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even now it is not cream of the crop.
Some strong AV maker who has been in the business for decades, such as Kaspersky or Norton, definitely is to be considered superior to Defender. I'm sorry but in all likelyhood, Defender cannot even come close. But, it might just be enough for home usage if one is careful on the web.
paid AV is going the way of the DO DO Bird, they are losing $$$.
They don't. Maybe they do on cheap home users yes, but companies who cannot afford an outage due to ransomware attacks, which are extremely common and wild nowadays, they WILL pay $$$ for paid AVs to prevent such a disaster. As a matter of fact, we do pay for it at all the offices I manage. I trust Kaspersky, Norton, GDATA and ESET on this. Never would I trust Defender.
I know ..... I am using Norton 360 , only reason I am using it at the moment is I got it REAL cheap and it does not put a real big load on my system, so I figured I'd run it
Good choice. I also have Norton 360 on my personal notebook as well. I like it, it is lightweight, affordable (with great regular discounts) and comes with VPN.
