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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The number one things was MS locking down privileges Basically you usually had to disable basic security to let most virus’s work. Automatic updates would disable most bad decisions users made without them knowing. There started to be personal criminal charges for some of the data breaches. Ironically it was discovered that antivirus programs were the biggest security risk many were basically viruses and were run by criminals. Locking down the privilege to install bad software did more than antivirus software but they got serious about both.
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