The keyword are "used to be" here. I have seen a few tests the past few years showing it being quite decent.defender used to be junk, back in old win7 days got massive lags in mmorpg sieges with defender, wasted like 80% cpu (6core cpu)
The keyword are "used to be" here. I have seen a few tests the past few years showing it being quite decent.defender used to be junk, back in old win7 days got massive lags in mmorpg sieges with defender, wasted like 80% cpu (6core cpu)
That is because back then it wasn't defender it was Microsoft Security Essentials and not baked into the OS. It was like a 3rd party AV and most of those suck up a lot of CPU resources. Defender is now part of the OS and works quite well as an AV.defender used to be junk, back in old win7 days got massive lags in mmorpg sieges with defender, wasted like 80% cpu (6core cpu)