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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 856848" data-attributes="member: 32260">There is nothing wrong with testing WD in isolation when it is clearly stated that other protective Windows features are not included, so the protection will be diminished. In fact, WD protection includes all features in the Security Center (WD antivirus, Edge, WD anti-ransomware protection, WD Exploit Guard). WD antivirus is integrated and suited to work with all these features. Microsoft cannot get its stuff together, because WD is the only one AV natively installed with Windows installation. For example, the WD Browser Protection extension cannot be automatically added to Google Chrome (probably due to antimonopoly restrictions).Furthermore, Edge is already together with WD (default settings in the Security Center). So, it is questionable to test WD with another web browser. Edge is by default protected by very strong Exploit Protection mitigations, so replacing it with another web browser without additional extensions (some testers like to do it) is questionable, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 856848, member: 32260"] There is nothing wrong with testing WD in isolation when it is clearly stated that other protective Windows features are not included, so the protection will be diminished. In fact, WD protection includes all features in the Security Center (WD antivirus, Edge, WD anti-ransomware protection, WD Exploit Guard). WD antivirus is integrated and suited to work with all these features. Microsoft cannot get its stuff together, because [B]WD is the only one AV natively installed with Windows installation[/B]. For example, the WD Browser Protection extension cannot be automatically added to Google Chrome (probably due to antimonopoly restrictions). Furthermore, Edge is already together with WD (default settings in the Security Center). So, it is questionable to test WD with another web browser. Edge is by default protected by very strong Exploit Protection mitigations, so replacing it with another web browser without additional extensions (some testers like to do it) is questionable, too. [/QUOTE]

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