Most new Windows users rely on UAC and other features to protect them. These features are there to help us, not substitute our brains and common sense. Many of us started with MS-DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 Back then if you didn't use your brains you did damage to the computer very easily. I was testing the various commands in MS-DOS to learn what they do, because my English were not very good back then and also I was too lazy to read the book. "Testing" the format command in MS-DOS would wipe your hard disk or boot floppy disk and render your computer useless. There was no warning in MS-DOS 3.3 Also you could delete a single system file and destroy Windows 3.1/0/3.1 no warning, no system folder protection. And of course using an antivirus was to try to disinfect your hard disk or floppy disk, not to prevent infections. Yes, we had some mishaps but we survived because we learnt the hard way to use our brains, not trust our computer to do that for us. We learnt that the computer is stupid and blindly does exactly what we tell it to do, even if that might destroy it. We, users, are supposed to avoid damaging it by using our brains and common sense. Needless to say we had full unrestricted access to everything until Windows NT 3.5 or higher was installed. Windows NT 3.5 or higher along with NetWare were seen only in business and other computers. At home we had to wait until Windows XP to see a standard user account and other protection and even then we hardly used them in a typical home computer. Partly because we were used to full unrestricted access and we didn't like that to change, and partly because we had learnt to use our brains and didn't really need this extra protection.
If you mean Defender, why would I do that? Part of using your brain is not doing something stupid.
