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If Android has recently overtaken Windows as the most popular OS to browse the web, the desktop OS remains the most used OS on PCs and laptops by a large margin. And unfortunately, the popularity of Windows on the desktop means that there are more viruses and malware targeting our beloved platform. If you use Windows as your daily driver, it is strongly recommended to use Windows Defender or a third-party antivirus to protect your PC. Actually, Windows Defender has become really good, to the point that a Google Chrome engineer recently described it as "the only well behaved AV". It's not often that we see someone from Google saying something nice about Microsoft, (actually, Google exec Prabhakar Raghavan recently said that Windows 10 S was "a validation of the approach we’ve taken”) but the Redmond giant also wants you to know why Windows Defender is a great choice for consumers. Today, the company published a new white paper, Evolution of malware prevention, that explains how Windows