11-15-2015, 11:52 PM
(11-15-2015, 11:19 PM)Cichard Wrote: so you are saying a 3rd party company can know how to protect someone elses software better then they can them selves? I think windows knows how to protect its self. MSE and Defender are good protection. I havent had a virus in like the last i dont know 10 years or 15 years. ofcourse i dont use my computer for any sort of porn, torrents or any other hack tools.
To be fair, common sense (which is what you're practicing it seems) is the best deterrent to a lot of malware. Statistically, however, Essentials/Defender has some of the lowest detection rates of any anti-malware/virus tool. Microsoft itself has even said that MSE/Defender is baseline protection to defend against the kinds of things that you wouldn't get anyway, because you use common sense. It's not designed to protect you from more advanced threats.
Unfortunately I can't find the original news source from the MS employee, though you can find many articles discussing the comment and the statistics of MSE's detection rates with some quick searching.