[hacxx]

[mothered]

Moved from The Lounge forum to Antivirus & Protection.

[Drako]

I consider most, if not all antivirus software to be bloat. But I proudly rock Windows Defender, and its gotten the job done for years now. It's also built-in to Windows. And I've never been able to completely disable it. I've always discovered it running somewhere on my system. So you might as well use it if you're stuck with it.

Windows Defender has also been consistently making it into av-test's best antivirus list.

[mothered]

And I've never been able to completely disable it. I've always discovered it running somewhere on my system.

On the grounds you're running a compatible Windows edition (Professional, Enterprise and Education), WD can be permanently disabled via the Group Policy Editor.

I've written a guide with supported Illustrations on my other blog a while back, so If you're Interested, I'll PM you the link. In terms of your comments In support of Windows Defender, I couldn't agree more.

[Ft6btmu]

ESET NOD32 can block various web pages, so for surfing ESET NOD32 is not good.