Hi,
I echo all the sentiments above, as several of our long-time experts have suggested. If you do further research on AV programs in general, Microsoft has traditionally never spent more than 0.01% of their annual research budget dollars in developing and testing AV software going back to all versions of Windows back to Windows95. It was not really an issue back then until in 1998 when viruses were able to circle the planet in 24 hrs. After 2003, there was no going back. Microsoft never has come out with any product that's anywhere close to 100% protection agains the millions of viruses currently floating around on the Web. Think about it, last time figures were published in 2016, the AV/Malware biz is about a 6 billion dollar niche industry worldwide. If Microsoft did any kind of adequate job with their own Antivirus programs (Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, etc.), why would all of those other companies (about 50 of them these days) be able to generate 6 billion dollars worth of annual sales of their products???
Something to think about the next time someone tells you that you don't need a 3rd party AV/Malware product or firewall product since Microsoft's AV's are completely adequate??
Food for thought.
By the way, if you're worried about Ransomware, check out
EMSISOFT, which is the absolute top-of-the-line AV protection these days, especially for Ransomware-protection.
They are #1 in most of Europe and Asia. And the annual purchase price of $40 US is about half the price of the other big guys such as Norton, McAfee, TrendMicro, Kaspersky, etc. I am in the process of switching over all my other Customers to this.
Lastly, the comments from Neem and others about multiple types of protection is spot-on. I have been using 5-layer protection, which I've been able to downsize to 3 products using the
EMSISOFT. It's worth thinking about.
My 2 cents.
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