I’ve had Malwarebytes for years on my personal windows pc and it’s up for renewal. Is Defender sufficient or something else cheaper but better? My default is to cancel.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Defender is fine.

    My SO is still on Windows, so I just have Malwarebytes installed to run a periodic (free) scan, and run Defender for active protection. We’ve been doing that pretty much ever since Defender became a thing and haven’t had any issues.

    As others said, if there’s an issue Defender didn’t detect, investigate, and if it’s actual malware, reinstall. That’ll cover you 99% of the time, and the other 1% (rootkits) of the time isn’t worth protecting against for the average person.