Microsoft Defender, among several other popular AV products, can hog your system under certain situations, though they, including Defender, do a good job as a malware hunter, most of the time.
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Microsoft Defender is found to be one of the worst performers in AV-Comparatives test suite which measured performance impact by anti-malware apps. AV-TEST also found similar results.
AV-TEST recently released its report comparing various antivirus solutions for home users on Windows 10. The firm found that Microsoft Defender, among others, can be system hogs sometimes.
In AV-TEST's new anti-malware ranking, the first of 2023, Microsoft has performed the worst among all in one of the three categories. The firm has found that Defender hogs the system pretty badly.
AV-TEST has shared interesting data regarding malware growth in 2022. The data consists of numbers for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. Overall, Windows sees the biggest malware count by far.
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After a poor showing in the last AV-TEST results, Microsoft Defender has once again managed to fare much better. Curiously, this coincides with the test bed moving back to Windows 10 from 11.
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AV-TEST, which tests and ranks antivirus solutions, has conducted its first Windows 11-based security test. However, Defender, despite all of Microsoft's touting, has managed to come in last place.
AV-TEST recently released its advanced threat protection test against ransomware for the month of April. In this assessment report, Microsoft's Defender has performed even better than last time.
Microsoft Defender has been performing exceptionally in the recent past, with a slight hiccup in the previous results. However, AV-TEST has found in the latest rankings that it is back to its best.
One of the leading anti-virus assessment companies, AV-TEST couldn't stop the breach of its own Twitter account. The attack happened over a week ago and the account still remains hacked.
Anti-virus assessment firm AV-TEST recently released its advanced threat protection test against ransomware. In this assessment report, Microsoft's Defender has performed exceptionally well.
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Unlike in the previous few AV-TEST rankings, Windows Defender for home users has faltered this time as it has failed to score the full marks in the firm's assessment report for April 2022.
Just like in the previous two AV-TEST rankings, Windows Defender for home users continues its impressive run where it has scored the full marks in the firm's assessment report for February 2022.
Windows Defender, now called Microsoft Defender performed great in AV-TEST's assessment in the second half of 2021. Despite that, the product has failed to win any awards in the home user category.
In the latest December 2021 AV-TEST anti-virus ranking for home users, Microsoft Windows Defender has outscored some of its rival anti-malware products, showing relative improvement since last time.
It's been a relatively slow week due to the holidays in the U.S., but there are still notable news items you might want to catch up on including a complaint against Microsoft in the EU.
German security research institute AV-TEST has released its October 2021 Windows 10 report for anti-virus assessment. Among the programs tested here, Microsoft's Windows Defender has done very well.
Microsoft has disputed the test results from the security firm AV-TEST, which claimed earlier this month that Bing generates five times as many malware-based links in its top results than Google.
The security firm AV-Test says the results of a new study of search engines shows Microsoft's Bing generates five times as many malware-based links in its top results than Google.
The German IT security firm AV-Test has released its first study of anti-virus solutions that run on Windows 8 for both consumer and business products, with Bitdefender rated at the top.
Microsoft has issued a statement after its Microsoft Security Essentials program failed again to receive certification from AV-Test, disputing how the firm came up with its results.
Microsoft's free antivirus suite for Windows 7, Microsoft Security Essentials, has once again failed AV-Test's rigorous antivirus test for December 2012, scoring well below other free AV products
German IT-security institute AV-Test regularly tests popular antivirus software. In their latest test, Microsoft's free antivirus solution was the only program which failed to receive certification
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