The latest report that compares the main antivirus offers that we have on the market, and in particular we have several readings with Microsoft Defender.
We have a multitude of antivirus offers on the market, and even highlighting free offers such as Microsoft Defender that comes standard with our operating system Windows 10 or Windows 11.
And the company AV-Comparatives, specialized in anti-malware security, usually publishes different reports comparing all the offers of antivirus that we have on the market, both paid and free.
In the latest report from July and August, they have tested all the popular antivirus offerings in the real-world protection test, which basically deals with web threats.
Well, in the latest report, there are different readings, and with regard to the Microsoft antivirus that we have in Windows 10 and Windows 11has regressed slightly in performance.
AV-Comparatives
Yes ok Microsoft Defender was able to block 99.8% of malicious cases in the last test, this percentage has dropped to 99.2% in this latest report. Also the number of false positives was reduced to one instead of two last time.
“Throughout the year we evaluated several tens of thousands of malicious URLs. Unfortunately, many of them have to be discarded for various reasons. We remove duplicates, such as the same malware hosted on different domains or IP addresses, already tested sites, “gray” or non-malicious sites/files, and malware/sites that disappear during testing. Many malicious URLs containing exploits were unable to compromise the chosen system/applications due to the patch level. This means that the vulnerabilities of third-party applications in the system were already patched and, therefore, the exploits were unable to deliver their malicious payload,” they explain.
It is not worrying, because the report shows that the rest of the antivirus offerings also came out worse than the last reportso it is a general decrease.
In any case, the best offer of all is that of Avast and AVG who managed to block 100% of the malware samples and only had one false positive.
In general terms, Microsoft’s free antivirus for the Windows operating system is practically as efficient as the rest of the paid offers, so today, with a Windows license, you are more than protected against threats on the Internet. .