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Gizmodo’s newly published free-antivirus ranking lands on a defensible practical point—Microsoft Defender remains the safest default for many Windows users—but its recommendation of Avast Free Antivirus as the overall winner rests on comparisons that are less like-for-like than the article...

Gizmodo’s 2026 roundup of free antivirus tools for Windows 10 names Avira, Malwarebytes Free, and Microsoft Defender among the options still relevant after Windows 10’s October 14, 2025 support cutoff, but the larger story is that antivirus choice now sits inside a shrinking runway for the...