Protection
“it's not a surprise that the beckoning call of free protection against the vast majority of threats to a Windows PC is having an impact.” Well well, Windows Defender turns out to be all most people need. From being the much-maligned unwanted child of the security industry, to now offering system security equal or better than the paid options. Talk about disruptive! This nullifies the main selling point of the popular security suites, and it's been heading in that direction for a while. They all saw the writing on the wall, and a security suite today offers much more than simple AV and malware protection. That's why they're called suites, and is also why the term 'anti-virus' has been pushed out of the marketing and branding message progressively over the years. Yep –…