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What can you do when a noted security expert dishes out bad security advice? I guess you can try thinking clearly.

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Microsoft Defender is good now, but I still treat it like a simple lock instead of a full security system. Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience ...