Avira antivirus 2019 free download2/5/2024 Such ‘mysterious’ blocks haven’t happened since I disabled Defender’s realtime ‘protection’ (i.e., hindrance). Quite often its (false positive) ‘block’ actions occurred without any sort of notification or visible record at all, so quite often a new or updated program would persistently fail to run, with no explanation visible anywhere. Other AVs give really helpful alert dialogs that allow instant allow / block choices, so why not Defender too? A whole lot of hassle that I could do without. Sometimes it did say, but then I had to go to Exclusions to whitelist it. If I got a notification that something was detected, blocked or quarantined, I had to drill down from the Settings > Updates and Security menus to find out what had been found, and often I couldn’t even find what the supposed ‘threat’ was. When it ‘detected’ or blocked anything (inevitably all false positives), its notifications ALL gave no dialog for allowing / blocking. It slowed down all program launches and, I think, more or less all file accesses, and it was a great relief to have it turned off once more. It may indeed be pretty good for detection, BUT in practical terms I found it to be rather a nightmare. I gave up using Windows Defender (i.e., in realtime mode), and honestly cannot recommend it to anyone. I use Windows Firewall Control as my front-end for the Windows Firewall, as it gives me much more control than GW over managing rules and applying other security features of the WF - so, for me GW is specifically an extremely valuable monitoring program rather than a firewall (front end). I have a lifetime subscription for Malwarebytes Premium, and try it once in a while, but in realtime mode it (still) slows the system far too much and so is kept just for periodic on-demand scans, so am currently running Zemana Antimalware Premium in realtime mode, though, bearing in mind the extended functionality and good reputation of Windows Defender nowadays, ZAM is probably redundant on my system, but at least it gives minimal performance impact I may well not renew my 3-year subscription for it, for the price is much higher nowadays - but would still use the free version (if there is one by then) for periodic on-demand scans. I use SecureAPlus, with its offline AV (ClamAV) turned off and Windows Defender enabled.
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