Windows 10: Windows Security, Settings, Security Providers, Manage Providers, Web Protection, No Providers.

I have Windows 11 S Mode.Windows Security suggests Finding Security Apps in the Microsoft Store.Has anyone with my Windows mode downloaded a security app from Microsoft Store. It is my understanding that if I download another security app, it may be in conflict with Windows Security and/or Microsoft Defender.Anyone in the know???

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Web protection provider

I've opened up Windows Security and in the navigation pane at the bottom is "Settings" then "Manage security providers" which shows this:





My question is, do you guys use web protection provider and if so which one?
I would prefer to not install any kind of antivirus or firewall just to get web protection provider/app.

 

Web Protection Provider?

I have Avast Premium on my Dell G5 550 laptop, Windows 10. The Windows Security app indicates no issues, no action needed for any of category. Yet on the "Security Providers" tab, under the Web protection category, it says "no providers". How can this be? Naturally, I'm assuming i need a provider for web protection, right, i mean why would it be listed as a category if it wasn't important? So, I activate, with highest restrictions available, all security measures available in both Avast and Windows. All for naught. Still showing no providers. To top it off, i click on "Find security apps in Microsoft Store", assuming, of course, this will show me a list of web protection providers to choose from. Instead, the response from the Store is "no apps available". ****? OK, let's just assume there's some miscommunication issues at play here. (Nothing new to the tech industry, right. After all, why do you think they all refuse to make any meaningful investment in call centers? Because they've created products that are such **** ups, it would bankrupt them trying to rectify all problems, much less deal with irate consumers. Ergo, community forums. The blind leading the blind. Until someone stumbles over a solution--we pray.) So, we're left wasting time having to review the basics, asking questions we should never have to ask: What the hell is Microsoft's definition of a "web protection" provider, and where can i get one?

 

Security Provider

Cheers
You asked

So did you find it, from my reply

and on the one where the bank recommended it and gave a free premium code
WHO is providing the protection - quite part from the fact they are both turned on.

I do not know how long you have been using malwarebytes but this became common procedure when malwarebytes removed the ability to download/install ONLY the free version and changed so that you had to install the trial.