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aguen
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Re: [WIN7] How do we tell if windows defender is "ON"

Best answer I could find to this confusing issue:

»answers.microsoft.com/en ··· db9ab9fd

ZZZZZZZ
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quote:
Best answer I could find to this confusing issue
It's not confusing ,it's assinine,and only Microsoft would pull such an idiotic stunt .

WD is an absolutely useless app and can and should be disabled in W7.

So what does does this moronic company do...........they rename MSE to Windows Defender in W8!!!!!

Who are the braindead geniuses that come out with these clueless ideas?
aguen
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said by ZZZZZZZ:

quote:
Best answer I could find to this confusing issue
So what does does this moronic company do...........they rename MSE to Windows Defender in W8!!!!!

Who are the braindead geniuses that come out with these clueless ideas?

Somebody that (unfortunately) is making more $$$ than you or I.
dave
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"Windows Defender" is actually a name with a little more pizazz than "Microsoft Security Essentials", so I suppose if they're going to pick one name, they picked the better one.

But why the ^!%@ was there ever a "Microsoft Security Essentials" as a separate thing in Windows 7 anyway? Why not just slide in the same stuff but call it an upgrade to Windows Defender?

Like someone said, it's obviously above my pay grade...

msmisfit
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Can someone tell me what the difference is between WD and MSE? I have Defender and after reading this I went to the MS site looked under "Product Info" and it told me absolutely nothing about what MSE does... other than "protect me".

I use Avast, a software firewall and a router. Is it safe to say I don't need MSE? TIA....
dave
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Up through Windows 7, Defender is anti-spyware. Security Essentials is more broadbased: anti-virus, -spyware, -rootkit, and -trojan.

See the Wikipedia link I posted earlier.

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I was really off base. I thought Defender was just a one way firewall. I haven't had Win7 very long.

Thanks, Dave... I forgot about that Wiki link.
dave
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The firewall is called "the firewall"

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LOL!!! As you can tell, I've had too many other problems moving from XP to Win7 to spend much time looking at stuff that is working.

Besides, why should I expect the firewall to be called something so logical?