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Windows Defender works reasonably well.

Symantec broke Chrome on multiple machines for me.




Windows Defender had exactly the same design, with a similar bug [1]

>The Google researchers found that MsMpEngine contains a component called NScript that analyses any filesystem or network activity that looks like JavaScript. NScript isn't sandboxed and runs at a very high privilege level, and it's used to evaluate untrusted code by default on almost every modern Windows system

Every antivirus is bad.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...




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