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Well yeah it's a zero day, so not much an AV can do. I'm just quoting the article.
For sure, I missed that (and the fact Valve seems to be deploying protections as well).
The commentary about Windows Defender was just a random remark in passing. I wasn't expecting the WinRAR zero day to be addressed (it's a zero day after all), but the malware itself (the Monero miner) was around for a while (current version at the time was at least a year old) and WD had zero protections against its methods (that did not use the WinRAR zero day, that was the entry point).
That being said, I do think this more of an edge case. WD works pretty well in my experience (especially for non-power users).