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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Windows started to take security more seriously, for one, and for another many technological strides in virus detection were made by others from the crappy signature detection towards malicious behavior, which introduced detection a lot, and Windows was able to piggy back off of those concepts to make Defender an actually decent thing.
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