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		_khau on Dec 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a ... Windows Defender was shown to be pretty piss poor in general detections. The only thing it has going for it is its low resource footprint.

anonymfus on Dec 1, 2016 [–]

Looks like survivorship bias: malware detectable by Windows Defender does not spread so it is not included in comparisons.

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