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It could be since there are many reasons why 1903 is not offered and generally MS won't give a clue about what it is or they are.
ESET is another type of A-V on the market. If I am not mistaken, there are Free and Paid versions. About your decision to run only WD, that is exactly my case right now; only have WD as the only line of Defense. Once in a while I would run adwCleaner from MBAM just to check out in case WD would miss something.
That is probably why "A long time ago" as you mentioned. This seems very recent with TrendMicro (ESET):
We recommend to hold off on updating Windows to the new release until after the OfficeScan/Apex One agents have applied the appropriate patch, as doing so beforehand may result in incompatibilities. Incompatibilities may include performance issues, program crashes, and even system BSoDs.
I totally shut down and disabled my AV software and it's related services.
Checked WU and nothing.
Guess it's back to the waiting game for me.
What a crock of, "you know what".
Current status as of June 18, 2019:
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