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Useless Defender?

  • 03-09-2007 8:06pm
    #1
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    Windows Defender came with Vista Ultimate. I've been using Defender since early February and it has never caught a single spyware, malware, adware, whereas my Kaspersky internet security suite version 6.0 stays busy blocking all the nasties, while Ad-Aware SE continues to ID and eliminate electronic footprints and junk. So why should I keep Defender?


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
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    possibly because it knows the registry and stuff better than other programs so should detect intrusions better than others, or at least that's the way it should be

    but I'm having second thoughts too
    it seems to be going down the road many products have, where a company (Giant Company Software Inc.) or it's product gets bought by microsoft and the first few releases seem to keep the original products potential going and then it settles down to another "me too" as if to say "we can do this" but still not well enough to threaten the sales of the big commercial products ( unless microsoft are in a war with them )
    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/dec04/12-16GIANTPR.mspx

    different products have overlapping capabilities, I don't know any one who rates an integrated security package as best of breed in everything, people prefer to mix and match


  • #3
    ActorSeeksJob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭ActorSeeksJob


    Windows Defender has always been pretty average, far better programs out there. Better off using something like SpywareGuard or AVG anti-spyware(assuming they both work on Vista).

    I would ditch WD first chance you get though.


  • #4
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    I don't know any one who rates an integrated security package as best of breed in everything, people prefer to mix and match
    Agree. I use a compatible bundle for anti-spyware, adware, malware in addition to my one AV security suite.


  • #5
    CptSternn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭CptSternn


    If you have Kaspersky running at the same time as Defender, of course Defender isn't going to catch the spyware. Kaspersky runs ahead of all other software. Once it detects something, it isolates it. Defender can't scan something Kaspersky has isolated.

    Anti AV software that scans for malware will keep your malware scanner from finding anything if it finds it first.


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