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>>mconle+(OP)
Windows Defender is a long standing bug in the Windows operating system. ;)

My impression is that its invention was for the sole purpose of eradicating the idea that Windows is insecure and prone to viruses, which explains why it can be overzealous and CPU hungry.

I would only enable it for family members who don't know what they are doing. For some reason, I haven't needed any form of active virus scanning in something like 15 years. If it turns out I've been infected this entire time, the criminals sure are taking their time stealing my money, etc.

>>ravens+Df
It's decent enough in the past 8-10 years that I don't bother with much free antivirus on my own or others' machines in the current year. It's a far cry from the Windows XP / 7 era where it was fucking useless and people got Ransomware or Rogues pretending to be AV's every other Tuesday just from using google images. Nowadays it is simply adequate for most people.

At this point the only other antivirus I bother keeping an install of on my personal system is Malwarebytes free in case things really go tits up and I need to run it and rkill from safe mode.