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BLAAAAAAAAH. So tired. Too much work to do, went several days without my medication because the pharmacy was out of stock, my wife has been out of town for two weeks, and my car tags are three months expired because of COVID-19 and a snafu with my tax assessment (I paid it but the DMV thinks I haven't).

Originally Posted by Voidbarker

it doesn't catch everything, though, hence the recommendations for those edge cases.

mind you, it works well enough and, if you're on windows 10, has updated virus definitions.

"Doesn't catch everything" perhaps, but still catches the vast majority, and it catches nearly all of the stuff that's in active circulation. You absolutely don't want to turn off Windows Defender in exchange for some other monitoring system, and you don't want to run two monitoring systems at the same time -- that can in some circumstances CAUSE more problems than it prevents. If you want to have another virus tool hanging around, use it for on-demand full scans only.