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It's still not actually needed for experienced users though, I haven't had a virus in over 10 years, so it hasn't had anything to catch.
Boy oh boy did it freak the fuck out about the exe I compiled myself from a python script I wrote myself, though. Had to specifically exclude it from defender to stop it from quarantining it every time it ran. All it does is check to see if a link on a website has been updated since last look...
This is the main takeaway that people seem to be missing: follow good computer hygiene, and you'll be fine.
Keep your shit updated, and don't download/run things you don't trust. Keep an unintrusive anti-virus running in the background as a backup just in case there's a supply chain attack, but don't rely on it to make your decisions on whether to open a file or not.
golden rules of PC hygine:
don't use an admin account as your main account
if you haven't directly triggered it yourself, the answer to that pop-up is "no"