Hows Windows Defender these days?

[J_L]

You're not visiting the right sites .

[shadek]

Was helping a friend of mine to clean her computer from malware. When I booted the computer, Windows Defender had already deleted 4 malicious files. After scanning the computer with MBAM, it got rid of the remaining 29 malicious files spread all over the harddrive. More on demand-scans with other vendors' softwares didn't find any other leftovers.

So all in all, Windows Defender does work, but isn't nearly as good or powerful as other tools available.

[Cloud]

I agree with Shadek, Defender is not as powerful as Security Essentials. The product will improve if Microsoft continues development. According to wikipedia, development is stalled.

You can download the Monitor tool for Windows Defender here. It adds the WD tray icon that appears in XP.

[Jose_Lisbon]

I agree with Shadek, Defender is not as powerful as Security Essentials.

Of course it isn't. It's an antispyware versus an antivirus.

According to wikipedia, development is stalled.

Really? In that case the fact that they share the same engine means MSE is stalled as well.

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Jose_Lisbon

Of course it isn't. It's an antispyware versus an antivirus.

Well I know that. And I don't expect it to be on par or to be compared against MSE that way. That is not what I was referring to.

Originally Posted by Jose_Lisbon

Really? In that case the fact that they share the same engine means MSE is stalled as well.

That is not what they mean. Windows Defender is still recieving support, definitions and engine updates. But development of newer versions has been stalled.

[taleblou]

Hi:

Well when I watch av tests in youtube like those from the LANGUY, he always had WD on in his clean Virtual test system and I see it always detects a lot of malwares and sometimes malwares (the red flag warns) that other top AVs miss. In-fact all this time in all the videos I have seen WD did not do bat at all.

[PJC]

How is Windows Defender these days? OUTDATED.