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Resolute wrote
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Sorcery wrote [spoil]If you don't want to pay, grab Microsoft Security Essentials, and if you can get MalwareBytes' Anti Malware too!

MSE doesn't perform nearly as well as the other free options like Avast and AVG, but it does have the best interface by a longshot. Unless you really know what you're getting and are willing to make the performance sacrifices for the ease of use and looks of MSE, I would advise against it. It even had its AV-Test certification revoked.

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Actually I'm currently using MSE and it is by far the best AV program you'll get.

I've seen and used them all. From Norton to McAfee, to Avast to MSE. MSE is by far the best.

If you want a lightweight AV that doesn't hog RAM, use MSE or Avast.

I'm deferring to AV-Test's results because they're obviously much better-qualified to draw conclusions than I am. The fact of the matter is that MSE fared worse in testing than other options.

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Well going off tests aren't necessarily accurate. Definitions get release almost every two hours on the average AV program. Besides, I don't download that much and never had problems with malware on my 6 year old pc.

Tests are the only way to actually measure things, unfortunately. If there is no legitimate way to test AV programs, then one cannot be said to outperform another. Just because something has worked for you doesn't mean someone else will have the same experience. "I haven't had a virus in 6 years" is not a valid argument in favor of MSE.

I never said I never had a virus in 6 years. I just said that I haven't had problems with malware on my 6 year old pc. Besides test aren't 100% accurate anyways.

I read that too quickly, but the age of your PC is not relevant to your level of protection until it can't support new OSes or provide the resources needed to run the AV.

But again, tests are the only possible way to judge the performance of antivirus programs.
But what I'm trying to say is that a test from a site may say MSE is poor at detecting malware at realtime, but a new definition rolls out and MSE has gotten better at detecting the new discovered malware. That's what I'm trying to let you and others know.
I'm aware that new signatures and definitions are always being updated, but the test showed MSE to perform much worse that other AVs in detection of zero-day malware, which does not have available signatures yet.
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