MalwareBytes and Windows Defender should not be treated as a binary. Neither one completely supplants the other.
Defender is fantastic for real-time monitoring and will stop the majority of threats that target your machine. It is, however, not infallible. It can and will miss things and let some threats through, which a MalwareBytes scan will pick up and remove.
I can’t take anyone seriously who insists that you ONLY need Defender or that you ONLY need MalwareBytes. You don’t technically NEED either, but together they form a much more complete protection system than either one alone.
MalwareBytes and Windows Defender should not be treated as a binary. Neither one completely supplants the other.
Defender is fantastic for real-time monitoring and will stop the majority of threats that target your machine. It is, however, not infallible. It can and will miss things and let some threats through, which a MalwareBytes scan will pick up and remove.
I can’t take anyone seriously who insists that you ONLY need Defender or that you ONLY need MalwareBytes. You don’t technically NEED either, but together they form a much more complete protection system than either one alone.