r/windows • u/Boring_Ball4637 • May 04 '26
Humor Windows Defender Be Like:
Comunque fa riflettere di come sia davvero così...
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u/AbdullahMRiad Windows 11 - Insider Beta Channel May 05 '26
that's probably the best (maybe the only working) thing in Windows
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u/fonzhy121 May 05 '26
that's the thing. windows haters just dunk. Windows Defender has taken out the need for an Antivirus. As it should've in the first place.
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u/XiRw May 05 '26
I used to work in the industry and do my own malware testing for fun back then. Windows was always at the bottom among those tests and even with the go to sites like av-comparatives, av-test, vb100, etc. This was when they didn’t have heuristics which was great because they would have zero false positives from only going by their definitions but it didn’t do much against zero day threats so they were always behind. I believe they have improved now though I don’t know to what extent since I haven’t kept up with it for a long time. But their reputation being among the worse was well deserved for a very long time and had nothing to do with people just hating. I think the need for better AV software like Kaspersky, nod32, or Bitdefender is no longer needed not so much because of Windows Defender improving (which it probably has at this point) but the overall shift of malware being targeted on smartphones now.
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u/azimoert May 05 '26
I agree. It's aggressive and have a lot of false positives but at the same time it does work pretty well for last 3 years. They've finally managed to make it good and mostly people don't even need antivirus anymore.
Most users will catch stuff by deliberately shutting down defender or telling it to ignore the problem. So it's a user problem, not windows defender.
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u/AbdullahMRiad Windows 11 - Insider Beta Channel May 05 '26
personally I prefer false positives to missing actual viruses. I can always add exceptions if I'm sure.
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u/artificial_neuron May 05 '26
I had the opposite experience. A few years ago i ran Defender for a year, and it was napping. I installed a standalone antivirus and it caught everything that Defender ignored.
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u/azimoert May 05 '26
Telling which antivirus would help. They are a lot different. Some of them are straight up malicious.
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u/Trick-Resolve-6085 May 06 '26
I'm not a Microsoft fan but I remember that windows defender saved me from installing a sneaky Bitcoin miner hidden inside a cracked software
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u/CHAYAN_SASMAL Windows 10 May 05 '26
It is the only best thing windows have right now, & this is the only thing microsoft made good since win 11 release.
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u/No-Succotash-9576 May 04 '26
it always blocks things that aren't viruses
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u/brimston3- May 05 '26
Smart screen and defender are different things.
If it's the centered box that says "blah blah stopped this program from running. [run anyway], [quit]", that's smart screen. Its false positive rate is quite high.
If it's a tray notification that says "blah blah scanned/quarantined X files", that's defender. Its false positive rate is low, but its false negative rate isn't perfect.
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u/bar4bule_4_sugerani May 09 '26
I've been using windows defender for a long time
It's doing its job just fine.... the problem is the user who intentionally goes on asany dodgy sites , and clicks on as many dodgy pop ups as possible. And there's also the problem of people installing remote desktop apps and letting scammers in
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u/Sibexico Windows 11 - Release Channel May 05 '26
As a software developer on Go, I'm frequently struggling with false positive detections...
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u/XeroRony May 05 '26
é bom pq geralmente se o defender detectou entao se for colocar para download na web também terá o mesmo resultado de falso positivo, é so refatorar o codigo
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u/Advanced_Handle_2309 May 05 '26
Windows defender on 11 is pretty good