Lets talk Security and Optimizations

[Ngugu]

I do sorta the same thing as mike. I just keep Defender up to date constantly, and occasionally use Malwarebytes or AVG just to make sure I don't have anything that Windows can't detect. It's worked well for me so far.

For regular maintenance, I defrag my HDD occasionally, go through all my downloads and crap and delete stuff I no longer need, etc.

... Defender still exists?

I use MS Security Essentials and Spybot