Windows Defender Antivirus Still Vulnerable to Attacks Despite Patches

itman · Jun 16, 2017

Microsoft rolled out several patches for Windows Defender in order to address vulnerabilities that could have exposed Windows users, but it turns out that the company needs to do better because the antivirus is still suffering from a number of remote code execution flaws

A report from The Reg and citing security research James Lee reveals that the MsMpEng engine of Windows Defender is open to remote code execution due to insufficient sandboxing, a problem that some other security experts warned of in the last few months.

Google’s Tavis Ormandy, who previously discovered several major bugs in Microsoft software, also came across critical bugs in Windows Defender, and reported them to the company to have them fixed.
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Mr.X · Jun 16, 2017

Errm, did they mean Windows?

Rasheed187 · Jun 17, 2017

Like I said, I will never enable Win Defender again.

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