If you were to visit the 100 most recently reported top malware sites, your computer would be at severe risk. Info stealers could infiltrate your system, collecting any saved passwords to hack into your online accounts. We recently conducted a test to see just how dangerous these threats are, especially without antivirus protection. Fortunately, most users have an antivirus, even if they haven't explicitly installed one—Windows Defender. Windows Defender has significantly improved since its earlier versions. In this test, we will evaluate its effectiveness in protecting the average user from recent malware threats. Using an automated Python script, we will download and run 100 of the top recently reported malware links. The Test Setup We created a folder on the desktop named "malware" for downloading and executing the malware. Already, one file has executed successfully with 53 detections, another with 26 detections, but many are being blocked by Windows Defen
If you were to visit the 100 most recently reported top malware sites, your computer would be at severe risk. Info stealers could infiltrate your system, collecting any saved passwords to hack into your online accounts. We recently conducted a test to see just how dangerous these threats are, especially without antivirus protection. Fortunately, most users have an antivirus, even if they haven't explicitly installed one—Windows Defender. Windows Defender has significantly improved since its earlier versions. In this test, we will evaluate its effectiveness in protecting the average user from recent malware threats. Using an automated Python script, we will download and run 100 of the top recently reported malware links. The Test Setup We created a folder on the desktop named "malware" for downloading and executing the malware. Already, one file has executed successfully with 53 detections, another with 26 detections, but many are being blocked by Windows Defen
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