Post #2164997
2026-05-05 01:10 UTC
Defender can be bypassed with a simple Powershell script iirc, so it can be trivial for malware to stay undetected from Windows Defender. While it's good enough for most people, if you're concerned with security I would suggest either Malware Bytes or Bit defender instead. At least, I heard both of those are decent. If not them, just avoid Norton and McAfee like the plague since you would rather just deal with malware than them
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@AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 13:31
You need to explicitly grant the script admin access or have totally disabled UAC, which already punches a large hole through Windows' security model. Malware that's in that situation doesn't need to block Defender to do harm.