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    Question Windows Defender begins to use tons of CPU when launching a game

    About 80% of the time when i try to play a game that has Easy Anti-Cheat (like Paladins or Apex Legends) Windows Defender goes berserk and anti malware executable begins to hog all my cpu, basically slowing down my entire PC. It does this for about 5 minutes and then calms down and goes back to...