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Microsoft claims Windows Defender is all the protection you need. I've been testing antivirus software for decades, and the ...

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Once upon a time, an antivirus program would be the one of the first pieces of software you would install on a new Windows PC. Now, that’s much less common. Many users instead now rely on the Windows ...

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PCWorld highlights that Windows includes built-in ransomware protection through Microsoft Defender’s Controlled Folder Access feature, but most users never manually enable it. This security tool ...

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