Microsoft Defender Antivirus

The term Windows Defender has been around for many years, but its terminology and capabilities have evolved numerous times with new OS releases. Defender existed even as far back as 2005, at the time providing very simple antimalware protection. The Windows 8 era introduced a fairly staggering change for Windows users, including Windows Defender in the operating system, free, out of the box. Although this sounds great on paper, Defender's capabilities were not taken too seriously by the IT population. Fast forward to today, however, and what is now known as Microsoft Defender Antivirus is a much improved antimalware/antivirus that is running on millions of Windows 10 and 11 client computers as well as, you guessed it, current versions of Windows Server. Defender Antivirus exists in the OS and is enabled by default, and as a result has a level of integration and responsiveness that is hard for third-party vendors to match. I can't tell you how many...