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And no reason to go chasing any 'superior product' if it's keeping your rig adequately protected, which it does unless you're an absolute goose who should never be let loose unchaperoned on the internet!I left it on in Vista, no reason to turn it off. Why turn it off unless you a running a superior product in it's place?
One of the best benefits of Vista is how much less my machine has to resemble a patchwork 'bucket-of-bolts' assemblage of accumulated junk in order to continue running smoothly and reliably!
Defender by itself sucks ass. Defender plus the Spynet ADVANCED subscription turns defender into a full blown HIPS/behavior blocker, and it's quite good. In fact, it's one of a small handful of behavior blockers/HIPS you can even install on Vista x64.
Yes, does not bug me, does not hog any resources I need, and is just another layer of protection.
Same here- I don't think it's actually caught anything (but then again- neither has NOD32).I leave Defender on. It doesn't do anything but sit there.. so far
If I may be so bold, I'm going to say "people turn it off because it's Microsoft", because there's no other reason to turn it off, even if you install your malware scanner of choice.
Same here- I don't think it's actually caught anything (but then again- neither has NOD32).
Most people don't know that Microsoft didn't actually create the darn thing, thus showing their ignorance![]()
its called windows defender
That's because Microsoft acquired the company (Giant Company Software) and pretty much rebranded it in '05. It used to be called Giant Antispyware. Now of course MS has had some work in the final product but the Betas were just rebranded previous software...
Really? Cause I have a different view... If you look at the Giant Product it was written in Visual Basic. Notice Defender isn't...![]()
The original Beta release of it as 'Microsoft AntiSpyware' was basically a rebadged Giant product. that Beta was the only version available from January 6, 2005 to February 13, 2006, when Beta2 was made available. Beta2 was a completely new product altogether, as you suggest, written in C++ rather than Visual Basic.
Not only does Windows Defender do pretty much nothing the process used to go crazy about once a week and then I'd have to kill it. An easy delete.
What do you mean go crazy?
What do you mean go crazy?