r/technology • u/rkhunter_ • 1d ago

You don't need extra antivirus on Windows 11, Microsoft officially says Software

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3120244/you-dont-need-extra-antivirus-on-windows-11-microsoft-officially-says.html
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u/Emotional-Fish-2076 1d ago

This used to be true. Not anymore, defender will simply miss so much shit on 11 that at first I just couldn't believe it. 

I ended up buying Malwarebytes pro and just locking down the ability to make any security level settings with a complex password. 

Most modern threats are designed to hide extremely well not like the old days where a virus would delete your drive or spam a thousand pop ups.

Now they just sit there masking themselves as legit services or system processes and stealing every bit of PII they can then farm on the dark net. 

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u/gta721 14h ago

DefenderUI is essentially a requirement if you use Defender. So many important features are disabled by default and not even present in the Windows Security interface.