How Good Is Windows Defender for PC Protection? - MiniTool

Windows Defender security protection capability analysis

This article will analyze the computer security protection capabilities of Windows Defender (now called Microsoft Defender). For more computer skills and practical tools, please visit the official website of MiniTool software.

What is Windows Defender and its features?

Windows Defender is a built-in antivirus software for Windows systems. It is free and powerful, and can effectively resist malware and viruses. It provides real-time protection and supports manual detection modes such as fast scan, full scan, custom scan and offline scan.

How protective is Windows Defender?

Overall, Windows Defender excels in many ways, offering a 100% free computer security solution without additional downloads and installations. It is integrated in the Windows operating system, enabled by default, runs without manual operations, and can effectively filter most phishing sites.

In terms of performance, Windows Defender provides powerful protection for Microsoft Edge browsers, but protection for Chrome and Firefox browsers relies on the browser's own protection mechanism and may not be able to intercept all complex phishing attacks, malware or viruses. Compared to some third-party security software, Windows Defender may cover relatively fewer types of malware.

While Windows Defender is enough to protect your computer from most malware/viruses, if you need more comprehensive protection, consider using some other excellent free third-party antivirus software.

How to find and enable Windows Defender on Windows 10/11?

Quickly find and open Windows Defender on Windows 10/11, you can search using Windows:

1. Press the Windows S key to open the Windows search box.
2. Enter Windows Defender and select Windows Defender app or Windows Security app to open.
3. To enable real-time protection, click Virus and Threat Protection and enable the Real-time Protection option.

Recommended practical and free software for Windows system

MiniTool software provides Windows users with some practical computer software:

• MiniTool Power Data Recovery: It can recover any deleted/lost files, photos, videos, etc. from Windows computers, USB drives, SD cards/memory cards, external hard drives, SSDs, etc., and supports a variety of data loss scenarios, such as hard drive corruption, system crashes, etc.

• MiniTool Partition Wizard: Professional Windows disk partition management tool, which can easily create, delete, expand, resize, merge, split, format, erase partitions, check and fix disk errors, clone disks, migrate operating system to SSD/HDD, test hard disk speed, analyze hard disk space, convert disk formats, and more.

• MiniTool ShadowMaker: Professional PC backup software that can easily back up Windows operating system and data, supports backup files, folders, partitions or entire disk content to external hard disks, USB disks or network drives, and supports automatic and incremental backups.

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