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Bill Sanderson Guest. There's room for some debate about this. Windows Defender did detect the. Sony software which Mark Russinovich discovered originally, and which was. essentially a rootkit. The Malicious Software Removal tool, which I hope everyone here is running. once a month as part of the monthly security patch download, specializes in. some rootkit families.
Windows Defender's malware protection is not great compared to the likes of Bitdefender or Avast, but its ability to spot and scrub rogue code has improved in the past couple of years. Like most antivirus software, Windows Defender constantly runs in the background, but you can put the real-time scanner into snooze mode to lessen interruptions.