12-25-2023, 09:33 AM
(07-28-2018, 12:18 PM)dMog Wrote:(07-20-2018, 03:41 PM)s1ave77 Wrote: I lately switched 2 machines running Defender for about 2 years to ESET IS. On my system ESET found the files i had excluded in Defender and on the other 2 PUPs. Not bad considering 1 machine is running Win 8.1 update 1.
A quite underestimated part of the equation is a fortified browser (to avoid drive-by stuff and obvious mining attempts) paired with a generally sceptic user behavior. Things that sound too good are never true ... this is the internet not any magic realm some seem to expect it.
The thing that made me switch was the annoying amount of background scanning Defender performs for any system related action a users starts, delaying the action upto several seconds.
what do you think of the paid version of Zemana ...would it be a waste of time and effort or is it a good program...hard to go by what is written on the internet because very little is not written about this stuff that is not from the software makers themselves or by people that are somehow surreptitiously beholden to the software makers....
so i try to ask at sites like this for honest opinions
i too like eset. I worked for a local custom build pc store for several years and we included eset nod32 (just the antivirus. Not all the extra crap) with all of our machines. I feel like it does a thorough job and uses minimal resources. I’m not a fan of WD. not so much for the job it performs, just the functionality. Sometimes you really need that “potentially unwanted program” to actually run. I use a couple different work and school accounts and I run into that “these settings are controlled by your …” I can’t think of the exact wording atm. But I think enough of us have run into the same error and it’s just a hassle to correct a provisioning package or reset this or go regedit that… just so we can use a tool to… fix our hosts file lol… the overall interface to functionality is just lacking in my opinion…. But when WD works, ya, it works and does it well.