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by derkades 1419 days ago
It used to be called Windows Defender, until they renamed it to Microsoft Defender some time ago
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Yes, but that's precisely because they intended to ship a (newly) cross-platform product. From my understanding, the goal is that on Windows one is supposed to find Windows Security Center + Microsoft Defender or another antimalware software. Not fully modular but hotswappable.