{"id":40139,"date":"2026-05-01T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=40139"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:14:25","slug":"microsoft-says-that-defender-is-sufficient-for-virus-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/05\/01\/microsoft-says-that-defender-is-sufficient-for-virus-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says that Defender is sufficient for virus protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"Windows\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Windows-klein.jpg\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>When it comes to virus protection and securing Windows, the market for third-party antivirus solutions is shrinking. Microsoft claims that Microsoft Defender, which comes bundled with Windows, is actually sufficient as a security solution to protect against viruses and malware.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg06.met.vgwort.de\/na\/910e6b140df64f92b85192bfbb14be6e\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>I myself have actually been relying on Microsoft Defender as my antivirus solution for Windows since the days of Windows 7. In my environment, there was no need to bring in another security solution. So the topic kind of passed me by\u2014but the other day, the following tweet caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3120244\/you-dont-need-extra-antivirus-on-windows-11-microsoft-officially-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-19.png\" alt=\"Defender als Schutzl\u00f6sung f\u00fcr Windows reicht\" width=\"596\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PC World has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3120244\/you-dont-need-extra-antivirus-on-windows-11-microsoft-officially-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picked up<\/a> on what Microsoft had already explained in a blog post dated April 9, 2026, titled \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/learning-center\/best-antivirus-software-for-windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best antivirus software for 2026: The built-in Windows protection you need<\/a>.\" Read details within my German <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/microsoft-sagt-dass-der-defender-als-virusschutz-ausreicht\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> [use build-in translation to switch language].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to virus protection and securing Windows, the market for third-party antivirus solutions is shrinking. Microsoft claims that Microsoft Defender, which comes bundled with Windows, is actually sufficient as a security solution to protect against viruses and malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,2],"tags":[773,194],"class_list":["post-40139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows","tag-defender","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40140,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40139\/revisions\/40140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}