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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>What changed to make Windows Defender competitive?
Originally Windows Defender on Windows 7 was an anti-spyware component, NOT an anti-virus. Microsoft’s anti-virus software for Windows 7 was called “Microsoft Security Essentials”. In Windows 8, the two pieces of software were consolidated. At that point, Windows Defender was generally considered “good enough” and additional anti-virus software to be redundant for most consumers.
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