My love for Windows Defender came when it was called Giant Anti-Spyware (founded by Oz). It managed to find 4 pieces of spyware on my computer, and I consider

My love for Windows Defender came when it was called Giant Anti-Spyware (founded by Oz). It managed to find 4 pieces of spyware on my computer, and I consider myself technically competent enough to clean spyware manually. When I ran the same software on another computer, it managed to find 3284 pieces of malware. And to think I was planning on doing it manually, eh eh. (It had an antispyware software that did nothing.) Eventually, Giant went mainstream and malware became smarter to work around it. At which point, MBAM came to the rescue. My next favorite anti-malware.