Testing against Windows AntiVirus

Targets Windows
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In the old days, both Parallels and VMWare Fusion shipped with antivirus software that you could install easily (Virtual Machine/ Install XYZ Antivirus…). This was useful for testing Xojo apps against.

Recent versions of Parallels and Fusion don’t seem to have this option any longer.

Can anyone reccommend a good Antivirus software to test on Windows VMs? And by “good” I think I really mean “bad” - in other words I want the AV software to be intrusive, nasty, and cause lots of problems for Xojo apps.

But I’d also like it to be safe, not malware, easy to install/uninstall, and cheap or free to test.

Recommendations?

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/271048/market-share-held-by-antivirus-vendors-for-windows-systems/

Avast is pure 110% crap. It routinely decides that an app cannot run. I have had loads of support calls because of that nuisance.

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Focus on the free ones, Avast, Avira and AVG

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+1 for Avast being terrible. Smartscreen is getting there too…
Anything that uses ‘reputation services’ (we never heard of the software so we’ll just disable it with a ludicrously scary message because it isn’t from Adobe or Microsoft)

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Note that Avast has a white listing service. I used it, and since, it seems (knock on wood) it no longer screams when it sees my apps.