Windows defender?

Seriously you don’t need anything else, it’s really lightweight and Microsoft uses it to enhance their paid for corporate offerings. Anything more is just expensive bloatware for 99.9% of users.

Edit: Kaspersky has been banned in several countries because it may be a Russian Trojan program.

Windows Defender, AV's pretty much need to hook into the kernel to do the job. This can be problematic with third party ones as they're just not as tightly integrated with and developed alongside Windows itself...as we've seen with the crowdstrike 2K24 incident lol

And Windows Defender is actually pretty good, MS has put good effort and investment into it.

CrowdStrike haha But really just use Defender

Oh yeah, giving a Russian software system wide permissions is definitely a good idea. Edit: Poor angry Tankies.

Native defender is good enough. Alternatives exist but aren’t worth it until your business meds require it.

Your money would be better spent on a good backup solution.

Windows Defender or ClamAV

Windows defender

I run Windows Defender + Malwarebytes. 2 different ways of detecting malware and work well with each other.

When I was cleaning systems constantly back in the day, malwarbytes consistently found the most bullshit. I'm assuming it's still good and lightweight. I guarantee if protects better than Windows Defender or fucking clamav if things haven't changed too much.

install Arch btw