Windows 8 out of the box security

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From a security perspective,
Windows8 and Microsoft's new implementations don't look so bad. Security and anti-virus vendor BitDefender has recently conducted a series of tests, out of the box for Windows 8
configuration and concluded that only 15% of the "100 malware most commonly used in annual cybercrime" The family " successfully infected the system.

Windows Defender does a decent job in Windows 8

Of course BitDefender is a manufacturer of anti-virus products, and they try to make it that Win8 is "easy to be leading" The malware threat is infected with ", but really, just enabling Windows Defender can keep 85% of the threat out, which tells us that Microsoft's built-in and bundled solutions are very effective. BitDefender tested 385 of the most popular malware samples, and 61 of them affected the system. According to Softpedia, the same test was run on the popular Windows 7, and 262 malware successfully executed malicious code (68%) because Windows 7 did not install the improved Defender version. This is a threat of malware. ) is quite high. Then, we can conclude that Win8 is far safer than Win7 in a standing configuration. Of course, it should be noted here that if you disable Defender and your system is down to the same level as Windows 7, the result will be significantly worse, but still slightly better than Windows 7. After closing Defender, 234 of the 385 samples were "perfectly" run (60.8%), while the rest failed for a variety of reasons. In addition to the failed samples, only 7 samples were taken by the user account. Control is blocked. Now, 85% is a huge effort by Microsoft and its built-in Defender, of course, it is not perfect, because it does not stop everything, so that 61 malware infected the system, this number is obvious, you should choose to buy a third party anti-virus software. But improved, existing security, blocking 85% of malware in Windows 8, instead of 32% in Windows 7, it should be noted that Microsoft is still doing a good job.