In the final report on the Irish health services ransomware incident, AV did pick up early signs of the attack but they were not further acted upon - there is v

In the final report on the Irish health services ransomware incident, AV did pick up early signs of the attack but they were not further acted upon - there is value to enterprise AV, provided you back it up with enterprise incident response... For home use, sure, just use defender and be careful, like the article says and you'll mostly be fine.