Windows Defender Is Becoming the Powerful Antivirus That Windows 10 Needs

Oh yes, good point.

 

I don’t much about what is happening around white hat hackers. But wasn’t there a famous one that got hired by Microsoft?

 

I doubt it. But in all fairness, it's not just MS, but also other security companies like Symantec and SentinelOne who make big design errors, see link.

https://arstechnica.com/information...ion-generates-billions-but-is-easy-to-bypass/

 

I remember when Microsoft bought Sysinternals so they could get Mark Russinovich. I don't know if that is what you are thinking of but it was a good get.

 

Forced an update search in Settings and got an update to the Antimalware platform. It's too soon probably for a changelog but I def. allowed the update to happen. This is my Windows 10 drive, not 11.

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Does anyone have info on this yet? The last entry to discuss changes in the Microsoft blog was August 30th. Prob too early.

 

Mine updated automatically today on W10 and briefly gave an error message telling me to "activate" Defender.

 

Whoa, really. What caused that, you wonder? Hopefully it doesn't happen any more, right?

 

The toaster message disappeared before I could even click it, so I supposed Defender had to restart itself for the update to take effect. I always enable Tamper Protection and use CD on Interactive.

 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/m...efender-antivirus-updates?view=o365-worldwide

 

OK, great, thanks a lot for the info, Krusty!

 

You're welcome, @plat .

 

If anyone else is interested, I just now forced an update in Settings and got an update to the Antimalware Platform.The changelog isn't particularly ominous--mostly improved performance with other stuff. It's KB4052623. I will update my Windows 11 drive whenever. What my System Info looks like right this minute:

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/m...s-updates?view=o365-worldwide#product-updates