The new Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with a new version of the Windows Defender, which is, in fact, the re-branded Microsoft Security Essentials. The new platform release came along with a wide range of enhancements, ranging from graphical changes to new applications and access to new services. Apparently, it al... |
3 March 2012
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The built-in security solution of Windows 8, Windows Defender, managed to detect only half of the malicious code samples thrown at it in a very basic test by Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at Sophos Canada. Wisniewski revealed that he installed the Windows Developer Preview in a virtual machine and te... |
30 September 2011
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Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 and MSE 2.0 will disable the free security solution that ships by default with every Windows operating system. This means that customers running Microsoft Security Essentials have no need for Windows Defender. In fact, Windows Defender is pushed to the background and switched off by... |
30 August 2010
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At the end of the past week Microsoft offered official confirmation that it was dogfooding (using internally) the next generation of its client-based security product. Codename Morro was announced initially in November 2008, and is planned for general availability in the second half of this year. But while Microsoft ... |
17 June 2009
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A Russian malware writer announced that he would stop development on the Zlob trojan and switch to the rootkit/exploits scene. However, before completely giving up on his creation, the hacker decided to send a few good thoughts to the security researchers from Microsoft, through a message embedded into a recent varia... |
14 January 2009
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Fresh releases of Windows Defender, for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, are available for download from Microsoft. Windows Defender is a free solution from Microsoft sharing the same engine as the company's Windows Live OneCare anti-virus. Validation is mandatory for the download, but once scanned by the Windo... |
24 May 2007
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Microsoft is offering a classification by species and a ranking by prevalence of potentially unwanted software code in the recently published Microsoft Security Intelligence Report July-December 2006. The classification of malware is done taking into consideration specific behavior, and is integrated into the defini... |
25 April 2007
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New updated versions of Windows Defender are available for download. Both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Defender have been republished yesterday, March 13, 2007. Windows Defender will offer protection against pop-ups, slow performance, security threats and potentially unwanted software. Windows Server 2003 Se... |
14 March 2007
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