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To be fair they did learn from this. They can now run defender in a sandbox to analyse files. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-sandboxe

• acqq 8y ago
  "Microsoft was not the first to sandbox Windows Defender. Last year, experts from security outfit Trail of Bits, who also specialize in virtualization, created a framework that could run Windows applications in their own containers. Windows Defender was one of the projects that Trail of Bits was able to containerize successfully and open-sourced it."