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Originally Posted by dickloraine
It is a while since I read something about that and I am in no way an expert, but I remember that some specialists accuse the makers of this tests to make them on purpose to make ms look bad.
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Really? Because immediately after, you say
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MS uses a completely different approach then others. One area were defender is not as good as the others is heuristics. By the way, no av is perfect in that. But MS does not do much heuristics at all. That gets them bad tests. For everything not totally new it is as good as the others.
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And what the AV specialists universally say is that MS defender is garbage... because it sucks at detecting recent viruses.
And recent viruses are no less a threat than old ones. Perhaps more so, in fact.
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I for one rather take nearly no false positives and very good performance over that slightly more security.
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That is a dangerous decision, and assumption that the increase in security is only "slightly".