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I've installed it on my insider machine to test it.
Sorry to put the boot in on what appears to some to be Gods gift of a freebie.
About a year or so ago ( posted on this forum ) a friend of mine was having computer problems with Vista installed.
For years he had been using the full paid version of Kaspersky with all its bells and whistles.
I kid you not there were literally hundreds of infections that needed to be removed, to gain back control.
This reinforced my opinion that there is no such thing as a foolproof AV security package....anyone believing it is so is living in cloud cuckoo land.
It's ok, he works in IT and knows what he's doing!
Anyway, back to the topic.
I had Kapersky for a while, but found it was too clunky on my system and was quite happy to use as much resource as available. Swapped out to ESET and i've had to double check a few times to see if it was even running!
The only reason I won't install it, is, I like Defender, and have been using it since it came out as Microsoft Security Essentials, during Windows 7 days and have never been infected(of course I check using malware scanners too, and use an anti-exploit(MBAE).
I just don't want to use a 3rd party solution, because, you then need to remember to turn it off, when upgrading Win10(as opposed to updating), or if you need to use a system repair tool, you also usually need to remember to turn it off before repairs.
But the main reason is I like Defender. Plain and simple.:)
The idea of putting all eggs in the Microsoft basket is definately asking for trouble. (That rather large exploit with defender not a month ago?).
But hey, if you have at least some sense all an AV will do is provide a fail safe when you're browsing.