Windows Defender Is Becoming the Powerful Antivirus That Windows 10 Needs

Gotcha and makes sense. Thanks!

 

Damn, yes... not a bad thing anyway.

That is sure

 

I second that, keep it clean without bells and whistles.

 

That's what I've been saying all along, SmartScreen isn't really an AV, so it shouldn't be included in AV testing, at least not the system wide variant. SmartScreen is also available to browser where it will block access to known malicious sites, and it now also includes some form of exploit protection on Win 10.

Interesting stuff, this will put the heat on third party AV's.

 

Evolving our Windows approach to AV, thanks to partner feedback
Microsoft agrees to changes coming in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
August 9, 2017
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsex...-windows-approach-av-thanks-partner-feedback/

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Kaspersky Lab to withdraw Microsoft antitrust complaints
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-kasperskylab-microsoft-antitrust-idUSKBN1AQ0IO

 

Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting @anon

 

Microsoft doing very well :

http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart2&year=2017&month=7&sort=1&zoom=4



And AV-Comparatives are now testing on Windows 10 64bit Creators Update.

 

Whoa. They even beat ESET by a small amount. They need to fix up the fp's though. It is getting there, slowly.

 

Microsoft on a par with Kaspersky

 

Yes, Windows Defender has improved but it's still weak regarding ransomware imho

 

Why?

 

It is getting better. It stopped a ransomware attack at my job with one user a few weeks ago where our normal AV did not.

 

My opion is just based on my own testing, and from observations from my workplace.

 

This view is even better http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart2&year=2017&month=7&sort=1&zoom=0

I wonder what the MS haters are going to say now...

 

@Macstorm how does my personal experience turn me into a Windows (Defender) hater ??

 

Hmm, did you just answer your own question?

 

Don't worry it happens to most that question WD these days.

 

That's a good point!

 

Thnx

 

My comment was not directed to you

 

I'm sorry not good enough. No just kidding, scores were pretty good. But what does "user dependent" mean, does WD alert users about certain stuff? Does it now have a behavior blocker? Because that's basically what my discussion was about in the WD ATP thread.

 

To be honest, I don't know either. Perhaps Martin_C or IBK can help in this regard.

 

Windows Defender has been doing behavioral monitoring and blocking of suspicious behaviors, for quite some time now. All fully automated.
Additionally it does light machine learning locally on client, while offloading the more intense instances to the cloud for detonation with the full set of algorithms.
It does local emulation.
It does heuristic detection.
And signature based detection, from local signatures as well as pulling in signatures dynamically.

A really powerful combination, as testing shows.

 

Man, that is fantastic. Thank you for the explanation!

 

You are welcome.

And Windows 10 Fall Creators Update are just around the corner, expanding the capabilities even more.