I had an update to 19043.928 waiting for me this morning, just requiring a reboot. Did not go smoothly, but did go. After the computer did the first part of the update, and started the reboot, it hung. Both monitors black. I was waiting for the BIOS message to appear and it never did. After 2 or 3 minutes, I hit "force reset" button and then the computer came up normally, and now shows 19043.928, as expected. No idea what that was about, but all's well that ends well.
ohenry There is a lot of fixes from 19043.867 to .928 and i notice same behavior. MS to release new ISO, hope i soon...
AV-Comparatives is one of the biggest and most reputed testing solutions that unlike AV-TEST who rate 90% of AVs as 6/6 which is BS, their results are more accurate. I used to use ESET too and it is light as heck, my only issue with it is it has a built in HTTP scanner which slows down my uploads by 50% and if you disable it you get an orange ESET icon all the time as if something is wrong and it also slows down my browsing compared to other AVs. I am using F-Secure now and I love it, it doesn't mess with my internet. Kaspersky I don't like because it installs their stupid VPN without your consent and has toolbars in the browsers which I know you can remove but I don't like such behavior. I want an AV to be an AV, nothing more. Windows Defender in my testing though is super heavy. Installing programs, even loading files in Windows explorer the icons load in slow motion, the biggest performance with Windows Defender is it will keep rescanning the same files over and over again upon every access and doesn't have a whitelisting feature to not scan files that were previously scanned if their digital hashes haven't been change, this is something that ESET does which is a big reason as well for how light their AV is.
I said upload. open your eyes before you post your nonesense. You are talking to a big NOD32 fan since mor than 15 years from v2. Only since version 12 and up has this upload speed hit been plaguing this AV. You need to visit their forums to see the many compmlaints about this.
I missread and read downloads. My bad. No issue uploading either here. I have a seedbox and upload requests at 45MB/s every week or so, be it by FTP or HTTP.
With a PC like yours it should have nearly 0 effect. I'm a Kaspersky user for more than a decade, but I had Defender on the PC for a year or so, with everything activated, and the only time the performance hit is real is when you activate VBS, i.e. virtualization based security with HyperV. Other than this, gaming, video editing, photo editing, creating books and magazines in Indesign, no impact. And that's on a 8700K. As for Kaspersky, it's just as light weight, basically imperceptible.
Seeing the A/V discussion here lately just wanna share my exp, that, being a proud user of ESET for more than a decade, never had any issue with neither security nor system load/crash related. ESET & BitDefender are the only two A/V that I personally used & recommend to others
Agreed. Panda is the best and lightest for the Free AVs, no ads or BS toolbars you just have to disable the news from the options. McAfee has become light but it has no whitelisting feature, That's total nonesense! you can't control anything.