Why did the antivirus market change so drastically?

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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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On top of the answers posted here, the malware market has also changed drastically. The money isn’t in targeting home users, and the security features in modern Windows make it much harder to operate in the traditional manner.

Nowadays remote shells on servers are what’s all the rage. Can be easy to make one that isn’t detected by any antivirus too if you know what you’re doing.

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