Re: MS Defender Antvirus: Any reason to switch?

From	Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.nl.os.windows8, alt.windows7.general
Subject	Re: MS Defender Antvirus: Any reason to switch?
Date	2022-09-13 18:12 +0000
Organization	NOYB
Message-ID	<tfqo7u.4ss.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<telpor.9fg.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <tfqe4v$2kmqd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org>

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Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/8/2022 1:52 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > [N.B. This is for Windows 11, but AFAIK 'Defender' is similar on earlier
> > Windows versions, so I included their newsgroups.]
> > 
> > Question:
> > 
> >    Any reason to switch from Microsoft Defender Antivirus to something
> > else/'better'?
> 
> If you had a specific file to scan for virues, you could always use 
> online scanning service like Virus Total.

  That's only needed for a second opinion. For a first opinion, one can
just do the scan of the file with Microsoft Defender Antivirus by using
the right-click context menu. Or you can do a 'Customised scan' in
Settings.

> Also, there are on-demand scanners like ClamAV.

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