Llann uses avast yes ?
It depends...
If I know a customer is a basic user, I'll just use Defender, it's easier for me and them and already installed. If they are going to probably do things they shouldn't then I'll put something else in, usually Avast (which I actually despise).
I used to put AVG on everything until one day I told it to ignore a file, it did not. I then I told it to shutdown and instead of doing so it just merely shutdown the front end and ran in the background and quarantined the file again. After messing around for a bit and going around and around and even going so far as to shutdown the service I eventually had to uninstall the AV in order to get the file to run then reinstall the AV. This was why I moved everyone off AVG for Avast, who later pulled the same stunt, and that was the end of that. Luckily by that time Defender had finally reached maturity enough and viruses were less a threat so it no longer mattered. I get it, the average person doesn't know better but when I tell it to stop I expect it to. I'm also of the opinion that my AV has no business looking for pirated software much less lying to me and claiming something is infected merely because
it thinks me or a customer is pirating something. I'm not there to go looking for trouble other than computer troubles, I mind my business and I don't need it breaking things that are already functioning and this can do that.
That may seem counter intuitive to what I initially wrote, yes, Avast is a hassle for me but it means it's also going to be a problem for little Johnny who tried to download Photoshop and disables the AV and it stays running and protecting the system. Sucks to be Johnny but Johnny doesn't pay me to keep mommy and daddy's computer safe, so in situations without a "little Johnny", Defender is preferred.
As for myself though...
All of my (few) Windows boxes are exclusively used for gaming, media or file serving, they almost never interact with the outside world other than Steam and Google, they never execute random files, frankly, if they didn't need networking, I'd just disable it and air gap them. The only systems accessing the outside and executing files are Linux and Mac systems, this makes it extremely difficult and unlikely that Windows can be infected so I don't really bother. They do have Defender but everything but the OS is white listed, so if anything were to get in, it would find it but it never scans anything else.
Keep in mind, this is an edge use-case, if you use Windows to access things online you need protection.
