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Over the next half-day or so more files accumulated at a slowish rate (from 4 to maybe 30 per hour, depending on what I was doing).ДЄfter working on my computer for an hour or so this morning, I found my Store folder completely empty and discovered that Windows Defender had been updated. I found a couple/few thousand files in my вЂњStoreвЂќ folder and deleted them.

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I had the problematic version of Windows Defender on my Windows 10 Home 20H2 system. The OS itself usually isnвЂ™t the culprit (when all the crap is removed). When things go wrong I usually assume itвЂ™s because of something I did or a rogue application or even a hardware failure.

Over 20 years of using Microsoft systems not once have I ever blamed Microsoft for anything I did. My entire goal has always been to limit the influence of Microsoft on my workflow, such that 99% of all problems are application issues and not OS issues. IвЂ™m more of a set it and forget it kind of guy so over the years IвЂ™ve gotten a lot of experience reducing systems to a lean, stable state and then using ADK to capture the best image state possible and then using that on all my systems. The fewer things that can go wrong the fewer things will go wrong. IвЂ™ve also never dealt with Active Directory, Azure, or managed an Exchange server, and yet I use Enterprise LTSB precisely because it has the fewest features. I can barely wrap my head around creating and modifying bootloaders like BCD and GRUB and wouldnвЂ™t even think to touch the kernel. I donвЂ™t consider myself a Microsoft technician and certainly not an OS expert. So, not my problem but I wish people would know better without sacrificing CPU and Disk usage for a protection they wouldnвЂ™t need 99% of the time. Of course, it is really bad when people think that using a 3rd party AV or whatever is a better choice and even pay for it.

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Of course it loves to flag good files only because they are new or whatever, when I use Process Hacker which has Virustotal integration, you can see the many process some might display 5/46 or whatever, and then you understand how these software with their ineffective databases will cause more problems than what it is worth, while using tons of resources, especially when we talk about Windows Defender. Also when we think about how Browsers have integrated tracking protection/adblockers and with the safe browsing turned on (for others, not for me), it is less and less needed all this Windows Defender and others.ДЄlso, most people I have seen infected, it was usually people who had a protection installed that didnвЂ™t do its job. I would rather spend my time teaching people not to open everything they see on the internet and the importance of firewalls and the whilelist mode and since there are good firewalls, where UI is not complicated where you have to jump through 30 windows to whitelist something and donвЂ™t have alerts (because most people would just click allow with them) like Tinywall and Fort Firewall (for now) then it would be easier for anyone to block and allow what they need and will use, or you can set it up and then adjust it if something comes up.Д«ut balancing when and antiwhatever can be effective vs how much resources it uses and when it might be useful to have it on I rather just go to registry and remove it completely not even just turn the realtime stuff.

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So I turn all these annoyances off for myself and everyone else around me, well, not the safe browsing because I donвЂ™t expect them to download the files I download so it is whatever, at least it doesnвЂ™t run all the time and uses a bunch of disk and cpu like any antivirus/malware/whatever does. Just turn it off and problem solvedвЂ¦ anything like a antivirus, antimalware or antiwhatever is useless most of the time, filled always by false positives and deleting good files because they are вЂњsignedвЂќ.Д®ven Safe Browsing (which is controlled by Google) is annoying for people like me because it always cause problems with whatever Google wants to flag as вЂњmaliciousвЂќ even if it is not and then people suffer and have to do a lot of stuff for their files to stop being flagged, a bunch of вЂbureaucracyвЂ™ that shouldnвЂ™t be needed any place and less on the internet only because some вЂњbig techвЂќ think they own the internet.

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