When I was younger, the standard windows firewall was seen as weak and worth replacing asap with premium or strong free anti viruses, like Avast. What changed to make Windows Defender competitive? It looks like a few years ago something suddenly happened and now everybody on the market has great protection.
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Back then, Windows was very vulnerable and Microsoft barely did little to nothing to secure their clients. So 3rd party anti-viruses were a must-have.
At some point, Microsoft realized that this wasn’t good for their image (GASP!), so they increased the security on Windows and also released their own anti-virus for free, which was vastly also superior to 3rd party software.
This very much killed the anti-virus market. Many companies like McAfee decided that in order to survive they had to turn their anti-viruses in literal malwares, which ruined the reputation of 3rd party anti-viruses.
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