^--- this guy knows what he's talking about.
Because most normal consumers have no choice, lack of knowledge, awareness, etc. If potential vulnerabilities or what happened to the normal consumers' information were clearly stated before you booted up the OS in a picture presentation and they were made aware that this could just as easily happen to them than anyone else, do you really think everyone would still be using Windows with no precaution, as so many do? Even julerz did, and he got hacked, but my reasoning is exactly why I think he IS NOT an idiot. The reason this information is not clear unless you look for it, is because Windows want you to THINK you are safe with their "windows defender" and other garbage painted with marketing to make the end user think that they are secure, when in reality their system is as vulnerable as swiss cheese.
Not to mention that they had *many* different security products, and rebranded each of them with the "Windows Defender" moniker as they were throwing out old products, eg. The
original Windows defender (which was just an anti-spyware FTW), then MS Security Essentials, and now whatever is being branded as "Microsoft Defender" is some completely different codebase, as MSE never had any of this stuff. And of course, "Azure Defender" which is just for cloud but who knows if they will port that to PCs as well.
3rd party AVs are not much better though; Norton(LifeLock) getting their password vault hacked again, and previously there was Kaspersky and others also hacked, ... these things are only good for protecting someone who is an actual idiot that clicks on "You Won" pages.