Cybersecurity threats are relentless, using all kinds of techniques and becoming more and more prominent, with viruses, worms, Trojans and all kinds of malicious software accumulating week after week in an attempt to infect computers and networks.

In an OS like Windows, the most widely used and therefore the most attacked, even the most sensible user when using their device will probably have to deal with some kind of infection.

And hence the need to use some kind of program to assist us in the task.

Microsoft has been providing antivirus for its OS for some time now. And we remember that «Security Essentials» that came installed for Windows 7. Since then the solution within Microsoft has changed its name, but the most essential thing is that it has improved a lot and caught up with the most outstanding free antivirus.

Microsoft Defender: Getting Better

AV-Test is a German center specializing in testing security solutions and publishes results from time to time.

It is one of the few of its kind that carries out continuous testing on each and every system and those of us who have followed it for a decade have seen that it works in a fairly independent way.

A few years ago he called Windows Defender "the worst antivirus» of the free and did not advise their use.

A few years later the situation changed.

The group examines the resolutions by evaluating three sets: suitability and level of detection, the load on the system and its ease of use.

Since it assigns a maximum of six points for each, resolutions have the possibility of scoring a maximum of 18 points.

AV-Test has analyzed 20 consumer-level antivirus programs for Windows and it is worth highlighting the very, very high average score of all of them.

And the great advance of Microsoft Defender by achieving the maximum score and rubbing shoulders with solutions from industry giants such as Kaspersky, Bitdefender and Eset.

Of course, these companies also offer free solutions that can be used on Windows, but if you don't want to use third-party software, Windows Defender is an excellent option.