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Originally Posted by theducks
Double (active) security is probably not a great idea.
Unless you visit dodgy sites, Defender does the daily job.
Not to say, you can't MANUALLY run other scans., just not have both in control.
Some suites insert themselves into the Mail streams (trying to stop your system if a Bot uses it to spew mails).
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Yeah, duplicate security (double, triple, or even more) is a bad idea. Especially when you have multiple ones active. Then you can end up with the AV part of the security recognizing the other security as harmful if not careful. That and some security also use firewalls and multiple firewalls is also a bad thing if they are not matched up. Sometimes eve if they are matched up.
Thankfully Windows disables Defender (and Windows Firewall) if another security package is installed, but they can be turned back on. But to do that is a bad idea.
So long as Defender is kept up to date, as well as the Security Intelligence for it, then that will usually be fine for most things.