Hi all,
So my AVG trial ends today so I need to get some virus protection. Is windows defender any good?
I've always used Norton in the past but if Windows Defender is ok I'll use that.
What are peoples opinions please?
Steve
No matter how good any anti-virus software is, even Norton, AVG, McFee, and all others, no matter how good they are, they will always still work as best as they can, and still fail a little bit. The more they work and the less they fail is better. (It would be very odd if an anti-virus software claim it is 100% good.)
Kaspersky is a very good one, it came out on top of the most computing magazine's tests. They reported that software works as best as it can, and although it did fail a very little, but comparing to the other brand names, which did fail to stop quite a bit of more viruses. It was awarded by magazines like three times in a row so far.
Windows Defender is Microsoft's own. Microsoft is busy working on improving next versions of Windows, by spending more time and money on research into making a better Windows. Any other anti-virus companies, like Norton, AVG, McFee, Kaspersky are more focused on spending more time and money on researching into anti-virus, so are more better than Windows Defender.