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Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid

Ron Ron
October 17, 2019
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Ed Bott: How effective is free antivirus software? I had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected. The bottom line? Microsoft’s free antivirus solution found and removed a threat that two well-known paid products missed. Here are the details…

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