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by nikanj 1158 days ago
Antimalware is the worst malware I’ve seen in my decades-long career in IT.
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I use whatever Microsoft call their built in security this year, use ublock origin, and reinstall Windows about once a year. This seems to be the better alternative to having Norton/McCafe/<insert name of "security" program that uses more CPU than malware>.
ESET NOD32 is still going to be lighter and more performant than any alternative, including Windows Defender. The latter includes big delay for small file access, even just metadata!
Nessus is not "antimalware"

It is a network scanner