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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There’s also been major changes and improvements in the software most likely to give you a virus in addition to the other factors already noted by other comments.
Operating systems have fewer gaping holes than they did before (fewer, not none). Security patching is more frequent and slightly easier than early Windows. Software is being more “app-ified” which creates more sandboxes mitigating possible damage. Internet browsers are much better than our old uncle IE, with much better security. Email is now largely web based with built in scanning of attachments compared to a software application on your computer.
These changes in the root need have an impact on the market that was created to mitigate the root cause.
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