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Win10 and Win7 is Malewarebytes or Bitdender a better all-around defense?

If you were to choose between Malwarebytes Premium plus Windows Defender or BitDefender primium,  which would you go with?
I've been  putting Malwarebytes Premium on my client's computers, running Win10 and Win7.  Malwarebytes seems to use quite a bit of system resources.  
It advertises that it works as an anti-virus too but I also enable Windows Defender, or run the free Avast with it on Win7 systems.
Any opinions?
Thanks,
Alan
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Does anyone use Norton or McAfee?  I was turned off to them decades ago because they were such resource hogs and, in the case of Norton, they made it so my clients couldn't get on the Internet.  (This might have been back in Win98SE times.)
We do not use either but we do use Symantec Endpoint (not Norton consumer) at our clients. That works fine
I would not install Symantec, not even on my biggest enemy's devices
That is not the advice of many which why it constantly is at the top of the comparison lists. It works very well.  I would not use it otherwise.
I've heard that the endpoint, the business product is good.  But I think we have to differentiate between that and the consumer product. Shaun, were  you talking about the business, consumer, or both?  And John, what is the cost of the product you put on your client's computers?  Are they all business or do you also have home and small business users?
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Alan
I think it is about $25 or $30 per seat but you would need to check
and I can find many comparisons lists where it is not shown but more importantly, I have been burned too many times by it corrupting databases, screwing up shares and not being able to pickup polymorphic viruses

PS: I am talking about SEP and Norton
Thanks for all your help,
Alan
You are very welcome and I was happy to help