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Leaving aside the valuable politics concern, I honestly love Kaspersky, it's the only AV that doesn't suck or become too spammy. Which alternative would you recommend? Please don't say Norton

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ESET is pretty good. Has a low false positive rate too which I loved about Kaspersky.

ESET has my recommendations for the same reason. Really good and way more light weight than many other solutions. Though I'd say anything more than Windows Defender for home users really isn't needed.

Defender is slow, that affects all home users

The company I used to work for switched to Microsoft’s solution (Defender?) when it came out, to save on governmental interference and money.

As a user I couldn’t really see any difference.

From an enterprise perspective (only because I don't use it on my personal machines), TrendMicro has really been improving. I highly recommend it.

I use the free Microsoft Defender that comes with the OS. Why isn't this being recommended here? Is there something super wrong with it?

It's slow and was very bad for a long time, so some of that bad reputation lingers, maybe?

How is it slow? I've never noticed a difference with or without it enabled.

Slows down various file operations (download, copy, archive, build, etc) and has a high CPU utilization doing that

E.g. see this test from a few years ago

https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-octob...

Though it seems they've improved recently and are average now in more recent tests

I put Sophos on my relatives computers, because it can be remotely managed from a web page.

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