Google Engineer Says Windows Defender Is the Only AV Playing Fair With Browsers

​A never-ending online dispute puts antivirus vendors against software companies working on browsers, with some experts claiming that security products often slow down or even make programs completely unusable on Windows systems.

At first glance, Microsoft seems to be the big winner in this scandal, as most people blaming security vendors for breaking down PC applications are also praising the Redmond-based software giant for developing an antivirus solution that works correctly and gets along very well with the other solutions running on a computer.

This is the case of Justin Schuh, who is a Google Chrome engineer focused on security and desktop platforms. Schuh said in a tweet that Windows Defender is actually a well-behaved antivirus that plays well with other software solutions, explaining that all the other security products impacted Chrome performance in one way or another.

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