Even past the pedantic that widows defender is antivirus software, the link justifying not using an alternative rates it as 54th out of 74 So the same experts

Even past the pedantic that widows defender is antivirus software, the link justifying not using an alternative rates it as 54th out of 74 So the same experts the author relies on to defend the Defender have a much higher opinion of the alternatives (and Defender is very slow, why do you not care about the "average user" using average hardware enough to suggest he avoids the pains of slow computers) And recommendations in the end without real time protection is just ridiculous, so with all that I'd not rely on the author's opinion re anything security