I hope this clear your doubt b/w both of these. Kaspersky is the second best according to me. Its also free if you have a genuine copy of windows. In my opinion, Microsoft Security Essentials is better than any other antivirus I have used so far. So Microsoft Security Essentials is basically an Antivirus program.Īnd Windows Defender is an Antispyware program. Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Windows Defender is software that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software by detecting and removing known spyware from your computer. Essentially Windows Defender is the Anti-virus program and other components like Controlled folder access, cloud protection together with Windows Defender is called Windows Security. Windows Defender is spyware protection only where as MSE is complete antimalware protection (spyware, viruses, trojans, worms, rootkits). What is the difference between Windows Security and Microsoft Defender Windows Defender is renamed to Windows Security in the newer releases of Windows 10. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) was designed to protect against. While you may run them in addition to third-party security software, it is generally not recommended to run them exclusively on the system.The main difference b/w these are as follows:- Windows Defender was released to protect against spyware and adware, but not viruses. That's where Microsoft's Software Removal Tool may come in handy as the installed security solution may not detect or remove all threats that Microsoft's tool supports.īoth programs are not providing the same level of protection that many third-party solutions offer due to their limited threat detection. Windows Defender was designed to deactivate automatically when another security solution is installed.
It won't hurt obviously to run the Malicious Software Removal Tool once a month after it has been updated on Patch Day to make sure nothing slipped by. While it is possible to list all the threats that Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool supports, there seems to be no way to do the same for Windows Defender's definitions database. I'm not sold on that 100% though considering that Windows Defender is listed as an option to detect and remove threats whenever a new MSRT update comes along.
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