How can I protect my Nokia Lumia 920 against Hackers. I can?t find Windows defender on my phone and the store shows no antivirus programs?
Let me take this to another extreme, EVEN ON WINDOWS VISTA, 7, 8, you don't need any protection. It's all bull****, take it from me and don't look back.
You should have at least Security essentials to catch the stuff the browser misses, especially if you aren't using IE 10.
That said, security essentials is built in to Windows 8, so no need to install anything additional.
MS Security Essentials is pretty bad though. It failed virus tests couple times. Maybe they don't have a big of a team like those antivirus companies.
When Windows 8 was released, lots of tests showed that Security Essentials had relatively low detection rates, in comparison with other antivirus like Avira, AVG, Avast, Norton, etc.Do you have any evidence of this? Because all of the tests I have seen state quite the opposite.
Security essentials definition updates share the same team as the large Forefront endpoint security product and it benefits from code sharing with that corporate security product.
When Windows 8 was released, lots of tests showed that Security Essentials had relatively low detection rates, in comparison with other antivirus like Avira, AVG, Avast, Norton, etc.
Unless you are a bumbling fool MSE is great. I have used it since launch and like it much better than Norton, Kapersky, and Trend Micro, and not to mention all the fly-by-night turned "legit" small name clients.
I agree. I honestly don't even need virus protection anymore. I haven't been infected in over 8 years. I honestly don't know how people get infected so much. I have clients that get infections at least once a month. Doesn't really bother me as I get paid to clean it up but still.
To put the numbers in perspective, for every twenty encounters with socially engineered malware, Firefox and Safari users will be protected from approximately one attack. That means nineteen out of twenty socially engineered malware attacks against Firefox and Safari users will end up testing the user?s antivirus and/or operating system defenses. Chrome users will be protected from about fourteen of the twenty attacks, leaving their antivirus and operating systems responsible for protecting against six attacks, and IE10 users will generally be protected from all twenty attacks.