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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Microsoft has loads more $$$$ to throw at R&D to develop their antivirus than other companies. Also malware got way more complicated than just being viruses, and Microsoft had to move from signature based protection to more or less behavior based protection to protect against ransomware and zero day exploits. It’s just that Windows HAS to really be good at protecting itself from attacks, without relying solely on signatures.
The entire being of Windows Defender is more than just “antivirus”
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