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Comment on Ask HN: Recommend a good antivirus for Windows

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Nearly every piece of malware I see rates 0/51 on virustotal. I would recommend picking one of those that has a high detection ratio, but you see...

Some of those with high detection ratios either (a) use excessive heuristics or (b) detect things that could be considered "riskware" or a "hacker tool", even if the software runs in the foreground and does not cause any problems for the user. Then again, if you never use "hacker tools", then it may not matter much to you.

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