Windows Defender vs Top 100 Malware Sites
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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All I can say as a IT Support guy since 2007, is that till Windows 8/8.1 appeared with Defender built in, I was doing 3-4 malware cleans/rebuilds a week. Since then with 10 and 11, it's now 3-4 a year and most of those are just adware or a sanity check to delete a legit remote app off a laptop some guy from India made them install. I actually get more 'virus' calls from Apple users now. Unchecky is a handy little tool for keeping stuff clean.
Unchecky rules.
Thats the funny thing apple is about to have a ton of virus issues and security breaches because theyre being forced to support sideloading and any unauthorized apps. Apple has pretty much no antivirus they just cock block you from doing things to get viruses which hurts everyone.
im in the Business 23 years now and i see it similar. since win 7 it got alot better 10/11 different worlds. So anybody can hate microsoft but they actually seem to tackle those kind of problems now.
Yep same, I work in a SOC and Defender is now the main antivirus used on windows devices. Way back when it used to be Sophos or Mcafee that was installed on every device, but not anymore
@jabezhane what tool can you recommend we use to scan our system monthly?
It's Amazing to see how windows defender became better overtime.. someday it might become so perfect so that we don't have to look for an alternate antivirus anymore
And, on that day, pigs will fly
On that day it will become a paid product. It will be a required add-on for your cloud desktop. So even you can browse the Internet for $49.99 a month *internet service not provided* *cloud desktop internet add-on required as well*
Agreed! Then there is also the fact there are third party tools that make it even better, more configurable, and harder to bypass like DefenderUI. Still no SentinelOne or PA Cortex competitor, but not bad at all for the normal consumer esp when coupled with third party tools!
I love Kaspersky, it doesnt use a lot of resources, has excellent detection of virus/malware, protects me from visiting shady websites, gives me a secure way to pay when doing online shopping, notifies me when an app uses microphone/webcam and also has VPN. Best bang for the buck imo
Its a cat and mouse game, Viruses will also get better then Defender will adjust
Imagine being infected with 100 different viruses and your inmune system blocks 99% of it, that is how powerfull windows defender is becoming.
That’s why it is important to click on links in phishing mails etc. This will help maintain the immunity of the system.
I don’t believe in Windows Defender, in my time people used to get viruses and everyone was okay with it. Windows Defender is the thing that kills your computer. I don’t want their program full of microchips on my computer.
@@MiesvanderLippelol
Only if you opt-in diagnostics.
@@MiesvanderLippe It's more like cloud immunity, if someone else got infected then the entire system is immune. If anything it's like getting infected and never fully recovering from the damage.
What I like about Windows Defender on Windows 10 and 11, is you don't have to do anything! It goes to work, keeps its mouth shut, runs in the background, only alerts you when needed, and doesn't slow down your PC. If you are carful online, Windows Defender is all that you need. Additionally all the modern brosers have smart screen and download scanning built in, so that really helps!
I do also use malwarebytes, but that is mostly as an ad block.
Keeping its mouth shut is such a big selling point.
@@operator8014 Which is unlike literally every other windows programs.
But it fry 4gb ram user 😢
I’m glad you did this test. You’re right there’s a lot of guys on Reddit who have a lot of opinions, but never seen tests of what Windows Defender can do.
Would like to see you do the included Windows Defender vs the Paid Microsoft Defender version that is now available with O365 vs something like Malwarebytes across a larger sample base, should be interesting.
Very interesting. I would love to see this
I was actually wondering if this was Windows Security (free w/ Windows) or Microsoft Defender (w/ Microsoft 365 subscription). As I understand it, there’s no such thing as Windows Defender any more-Microsoft’s product names are very confusing, same with the Surface line-up!
@@beaujeste I didn’t know that. So I’m not really sure
@@beaujeste Judging by 3:52, I assume that it is Windows Security, not the paid Microsoft Defender. But I too am curious to see what difference there is between the two.
There is now defender for endpoint which is 1 of the paid options, they also have Microsoft Sentinel and also defender for o365. I might be missing one other
I really like this kind of videos. It gives a clear understanding of why is it so important to have cybersecurity.
it shows why it's important to act secure rather than trust an antivirus which tries to make up for your mistakes ...
@@xBintu Download Free GTA 6 with mods
AT LAST .... the channel returned to its originalform(*antivirus Vs malware tests) ,which was the main reason for me being subscribed in the first place !!
The detections were in line with what I expected! Windows defender is so good nowadays and the important thing is that it is not heavy on the system.
I would also add if you are using Office 365, it comes with Microsoft 365 Defender, which is a unified enterprise defense suite with advanced capabilities. For example, it proactively hunts for threats, has identity threat protection, dark web monitoring, prevents cross-domain attacks, etc.
would like to see a full Windows Defender vs. Ransomware/Malware and everything in between.
but not in a VM but in a real system with HVCI.
A lot of work and what's the difference? Unless the experiment is to see if there's any difference.
@@raylopez99 because hvci does not work in a VM but is the only real security feature difference between a stock w10 and w11 installation.l
@@PSXman9what is hvci?
This is the big question, modern ransomware strains are very effective at bypassing unmanaged Defender and it would be interesting to see if this is the case on the up-to-date version on Windows 11.
@@imranhq13 "Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity (HVCI) is a Windows security feature that uses virtualization to isolate the Code Integrity (CI) decision-making function from the rest of the Windows operating system. This makes it more difficult for attackers to tamper with the CI function and load malicious code into the kernel."
and exactly this does not work in his tests since he's already is inside a VM.
didn't expect these results, windows defender is truly improving!
the only thing that is improving is your obesity.
Thank you for doing these types of videos. I generally don’t leave comments, but I do value your opinion and your testing. I have always ran a third-party antivirus program such as bit defender, and even that has failed me over the years with info stealers a few years ago I got hit with an info stealer, and just like you said I lost my RUclips channel took me a long time to get it back
Appreciate your time and sharing the results of this test.
Great content! You guys should make a whole series testing all the antivirus on the market like this I’m curious on how my bitfender would hold up and I bet a lot of people are wondering the same about the antivirus they use.
So nobody is talking about the fact that the like button is shining when he said "please like and share this video" at 7:47
Fun fact (00:30): In 2013, the latest version of Windows was Windows 8, which already featured Windows Defender. WD was initially released as a standalone application for Windows XP in 2006 before being directly integrated within the release of Windows Vista
Frankly it really is great to see windows defender doing better over the years. With supply chain issues becoming a greater concern with 3rd party software solutions, having good first party support for viruses, etc is good.
I'm really liking defender more and more. Considering I am a sole infrastructure engineer and the business is wanting to use bitdefender mainly, i think potentially having the both of these helps alot from a cloud protection and local.
As someone who spent years using bit defender, you have tons of better alternatives. It actually were worse at handling viruses than Defender have been for me
As someone who uses Bitdefender daily, I hope you never need to.
well your job title sounds good
anyone knows you can't run 2 different anti-virus
one will shut the other off
your company needs a new infrastructure engineer if you don't know that
@@blackoutgstar9949 you obviously haven't experienced the real life from behind a keyboard, so I'll let that slide and hope you the best in a sad life of negativity.
@hunterzone4846 not that I didn't know these would clash if ran locally as such but I did say from a local and cloud pov. So what I responded to him with was totally reasonable considering he has no clue of what others know.
This is the first time I have come across your channel. I "liked" and 'Subscribed" and I do not subscribe to very many channels. I just want to make sure I don't lose track of this channel. Beautiful presentation. I like that you "show your work" instead of just talking about, makes it much more credible and believable. 🙂
TBH I've had so many problems with third party antivirus software breaking things like Windows updates or false-positive blocks (like once the windows logon service got blocked) that I just run Defender now.
Windows defender might be the most powerful antivirus on the market right now, assuming that you have enabled cloud analysis and the automatic sample submission, it's incredibly aggressive and is quick on the uptake when facing new/unknown malware.
I have just used Windows Defender for the past few years. Defender had gotten much better recently and I'm not sure if it is worth the price and memory usage of premium AV.
I can't be the only one that remembers Windows defender coming out with windows 2007 (more than 10 years ago)
Great video, very informative! I am not an IT guy or a big computer guy, but I have never trusted windows defender to actually protect my computer, and came into this video not expecting much. But I am glad to see it is actually getting better, I am definitely going to stick with current anti-malware suite, but maybe with my next computer (if defender continues to improve), I won't feel the need to replace it!
Yessss, would love to see video's comparing the popular AV's.
I would be interested to know how good Defender is on Windows 10 compared to Windows 11 in this case.
For a reasonably internet-capable individual, Defender on it's own is 'good enough'. If you aren't certain, get Malwarebytes as a free user and anytime you have a feeling, run a scan. No AV can detect EVERYTHING. While a malwarebytes scan might not catch it before damage is done, it CAN catch it fast enough for you to mitigate damage of most types. The kinds of things that can brute force Defender are just as likely to brute force any given other active protection.
We have been using Heimdal at our company for a while now, and we really love it :)
Great video. Really appreciate seeing some testing I can point people to. I agree base defender absolutely fine for the average user. Enterprises environments should have an XDR solution.
THANKS FOR SHARING! Hjghly needed this as I am currently considering to use defender instead of third party anti-malware.
I would like to see a Linux distribution under the same circumstances. A random Linux distribution and user vs. 100 malware sites.
This evolution totally passed me by. So thanks for enlightening me.
Tip for next video - please dont block the process explorer - it's nice to see what is happening in real time to executables.
this shows that at least your are pretty safe but I'm still paranoid AF that imma get hacked
I love Malwarebytes, I've been using them in my personal environment for years. At work, we only run Windows Defender (it's free). I'm perfectly happy with the security it provides,
Just after fiber connection I installed a Tz 470 SonicWALL then I run defender on all machines on the other side of the SonicWALL in-house which gives better protection than Malwarebytes did installed independently on each computer. Haven't had one problem since installation of these above mentioned items. Thanks for the review you guys are great!
It's nice to see how Windows Defender became so much better because i really don't want to download any third-party anti virus cuz some anti virus takes to much memory
I am an IT professional and even I keep a good product like BD on my personal systems. Never know who's going to do what with your system and sometimes I like to get careless with gaming mods, try out different ai stuff etc. Not so much cracked software, but you do download alot of stuff from here and there to get some of that stuff going. It only takes a split second after one of those info stealers execute to steal your session cookies and you have lost everything. Those types of links need to be blocked before you can even visit them like we saw with Malwarebytes here. That said, Windows defender is much better than nothing as you said. There are plenty of people who don't know anything about this stuff and never install any protection for the life of their systems, it is good to have that built in and running by default. Side note, many malware programs do target and successfully disable it as apart of their infection. I have seen this cause chaos in an enterprise environment multiple times because all they had was Windows defender and ended up with trickbot spreading everywhere.
I was impressed by the detection. It still holds true that Defender still slows down the system a lot more than competitors and is heavily reliant on legacy signatures, but it is nice to see MS finally made it a more effective product protection-wise. If folks want to use it, definitely use it with the free tool DefenderUI, as that will prevent malware from disabling Defender.
Does it? I haven't seen more on this topic. Any resource you can direct me toward?
strong disagree. I had Bitdefender and that shit Killed a hard Drive the default is Low af.
killed a hard drive wdym?@@mrjaked420
i have it@@mrjaked420
Defender uses significantly less system resources than 3rd party AV.
I am using Defender only barring the occassional manual scan with MWB but even then 90 % is not 100 %, even if the missed threats weren't major and no malware processes were running.
I'd kind of want to see a follow up of trying to run the threats Defender missed one-by-one, did Defender just miss them due to the overload of malware being ran at the same time or does it simpy omit those instances.
Defender relies on cloud analysing yeah but even then I'd want to see it work more like "this process is on hold until it is considerd safe" instead of "there are so many processes trying to run that some might slip through".
Also MWB being smart enough to determine the threats were being run by a script and terminate the script itself is quite impressive to me, exactly what you'd want from your AV.
Windows defender + malwarebytes + he's browser extension = perfection
Would be interesting to see the results with Windows running in S mode. Its just about possible to do everything most users would want to do under S mode, and malware likely wouldn't stand a chance.
Id love an in-depth video about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, even running this test. Its the Enterprise AV/EDR available with Microsoft 365. We use SentinelOne where I work, but im considering a greater push to move to using it, since its included with our 365 licences. Im too busy right now doing some practical tests with Entra ID Plan 2 so I cant test it myself right now.
It seems that Windows Defender was active (icon bottom right with green checkmark at 7:00) during the Malwarebytes test. Was this the case?
I completely forgot about XP's endless pop-up screens, good times lol! I remember once i really tried to close them all for like 10 minutes but it was popping up and up so i began preparations for a format))
Que buen video. Algo que tenía curiosidad pero jamás lo hubiera intentado en mi PC
A new day with a new upload from The PC Security Channel is another day of happyness fr
Hi Leo, I see you're supporting WD at the very least giving it some love. What everyone has to remember is that you are the security and that AV is just a tool and you use and demonstrate are only tools and we are only as good in ways we use those tools. So it's necessary to keep learning as changes come and go and to stay on top of threats and evolve as everything evolves. Always looking for new ways to combat this assault it's a constant struggle protecting our information and financial privacy.
I would like to see you make an seriously infected system to operational again without installing new windows and using your skillets . If it is possible
Finally a Windows Defender video that isn't sponsored by Norton
As someone who knows nothing I was worried that windows wasn't safe enough for my incompetent self at times but I'm glad it did this well
He’s a great videos, very interesting, informative and fun to watch. If I had a need I would definitely hire this company.
Defender has been improving over the years - over the last 8 years there’s little reason for any normal person (assuming normal users here) to actually invest in AV solutions as out of box is more than adequate.
Great video! Thanks for posting!
Many moons ago, one could sail the sea safely by avoiding gloomy islands or opening messages in strange floating bottles. Arg mateys' those were the days.
When you mentioned the like and suscribe, did you choose to have the button highlight?
Is that a thing?
Because on my pc it just hightlighted it when you said that
yes
I would like see how it performs without the cloud if it's possible
There is still room for improvement in Windows Defender, so keep on it!
Great video, proves the point that Windows Defender is definitely capable antivirus for an average user. Of course, Malwarebytes is still ahead and in case of an actual infection it's one of the best programs to run, but I don't think it's necessary to use it on a daily basis.
Quite like how good Defender is. Many more people who are less tech savvy are going to be more protected. It feels like it's getting closer to how secure mobiles currently are, which should be a standard across operating systems. So I guess we might see more zero-day exploits in Windows
Its a big illusion that mobiles are safe
Its become so much better than it was back in Windows Vista/7 days, go to a few questionable sites/download from questionable sources back then and you used to be screwed, nowadays no issues at all with any kind of malware/virus.
With that said, I've had issues every once in a while where it wouldn't allow me to save files in Documents folder.
Cool info, thanks for sharing, well done :)
A video on ClamAV on a linux distro would be great.
Agree, but from what I have seen... it's very bad
Edit: I saw many recommendations for Crowdstrike
@@tablettablete186 It's very hard to get CS if you're a consumer (and ridiculously expensive), but yes CrowdStrike and SentinelOne are two of the best for Linux. S1 gets more of a leg up though as it is more autonomous than CS in my experience (less reliant on cloud-access & human analysts) and more cost-effective.
You so need to make a series out of this with others besides defender
Its not entirely only about how good windows defender is, you also have the User that should work coincide the windows defender and have an idea of what not to download. If you know when something is a scam, then the percentage greatly increases.
I would love to see a stock windows defender, versus a maximum hardened defender, vs the paid version, all up against MalwareBytes.
People sometimes complain about the price of windows, but it does bring many good tools on it, is not just the defender, clipchamp, the Microsoft store which has many free apps and all are secure, and many tools. Sure Linux has many free tools that aren't bad, but they rely on people's good will to be updated and to make sure is compatible with your device... however windows, while there are many devices that get out of support. Those that are supported, get really good support.
man i had to watch this just to be sane again. being paranoid over anything is so hard, i always think someone is spying on me. anyway, thanks for the video, man.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see that Defender is performing much better than it used to. Still, I won't be switching my dependencies for security from Kaspersky anytime soon! LOL. Thanks for the update, however. ^_^
Thank you so much , I've started using anti-virus software in 2016 and still was using it until i saw your video thank uuu
I don't even use Windows anymore I only use Linux but this channel is still interesting enough that I subbed regardless lol
It was my understanding that Malware Bytes works alongside Defender and does not turn it off.
I think Windows Defender is a huge unsung hero these past few years. Windows essentially turned into Apple being that they just don't get virus's and malware anymore. It's really cool how right out of the box the system is really good at protecting itself with no need to purchase things like MacAfee etc.
A potential gap in your analysis: is Malwarebytes blocking threats as the links themselves are known to be threats or is it blocking based on scan and behaviour of the files? I can't quite say as no idea what your script does but likely downloads first..
I downloaded a virus stupidly once, my computer went haywire for a second, windows notified me and blocked it instantly and nothing else happened. It literally happened in seconds and I’ve found nothing more regarding malware. I was extremely, extremely surprised
Thank you for doing these tests. Could we possibly have a review of HP Wolf Security ? This now comes preinstalled on most laptops manufactured by HP and works alongside Windows Defender.
bruh that's crazy
Very insightful thank you 🙏
Amazing that they know all these malware sites and they haven't destroyed and removed them strange world
i still think its wild that people say windows defender is enough. I wouldn't trust them with ANY of my PII.
Can you do bulletproof west vs top 100 most powerful weapons next?
I remember circa 2002 or 2003, if you installed windows 2000 and did not install a blaster patch BEFORE connecting to the internet your computer, without any interaction from your side, would IMMEDIATELY be infected with the Blaster worm. If you've been building PCs as long as I have, this progress from Microsoft is very impressive indeed.
Amazing video I was always wandering if windows defender is good.. btw any views on panda antivirus?
Sacrificial frozen state VM's are amazing for testing whether or not something is sketchy. you can run anything on them and the moment you reboot its clean. just make sure its not on your primary vlan..
Not everyone can afford a major av program and many are made to think they need high dollar software.
Defender, malware bytes and Webroot are all worth a look, with the past two being affordable.
I would like to see you do this on multiple anti-maleate programs....
Can you try AVG next time??
I wish yo would have also tested Defenfer with the cloud turned off....just for the "Smiles and Giggles factor".
The perceived "delay" in defender is not the result of defender. It is the result of the malware. Not every piece of code is executed upon completion of installation.
Windows defender needs to be built more asynchronous to allow the ui to function even while detecting malware
Is a good confirmation for me. I saw the improvement of windows defender across years.
I wish i had this 12 years ago. I don't know what i had, but my laptop wouldn't stop downloading apps, not even after reinstalling windows, I had to throw the hard-disk, all family photos and important documents lost
Great work. Thanks 🙏 👍
I remember how bad it was when it first came out in the XP days after the Blaster virus.
This is great, we need more of this
every antivirus is the king until ,kaspersky enters the chat
Hi, thanks for your excellent video! While reviewing this one, I wondered why should I renew my Kaspersky subscription. If windows defender is acceptable, why should we go for a payable antivirus
Thanks for your opinion on this matter
I would definitely like to see bigger test. Or performance impact of different antiviruses. Or even for gaming.
I will watch your video when you make it...
Last week I had a bit of a sniffle and Windows Defender quarantained me for a week after detecting corona.
Can the speed of your computer alter the effectiveness of Windows Defender's cloud protection in mass-threat scenarios like this by changing its ability to keep up with the malware executions? If so you should do a video where you share the specs of your test machine and run a test like this on multiple computers in different performance brackets to illustrate the difference.
I'm using only Windows Defender since like 2015 and I never had any virus-related problems with my system since then. When someone gives me Windows PC for service, the first thing I do is uninstall all free antiviruses and letting it run on Windows Defender.
Very interesting, can you try the browser apps plugins to see how good they protect ?