[zeusk]

I'm quite certain Windows Defender uses (or used, at some point) GPUs in the machine to accelerate malware pattern matching. I remember a coworker talking about a funny bug as a consequence when the graphics driver executable itself was infected.

[cl0ckt0wer]

There's an article on the announcement last year: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/intel-microsoft-to-u...

[dmix]

That is for their enterprise "Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection" endpoint security product which scans live memory for any hidden malware not writing to disk. Which would otherwise be consuming far more CPU than the typical default windows security software. Which is why they needed GPU in the first place. But it's an interesting solution none-the-less.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/micros...