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#1 DAVID E

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 07:39 PM

Is it worth it? I have updates from this about twice a week it seems. I don't use Spybot or AdAware anymore and just have Spyware Blaster/Guard, firewall and my trusty router and have had no problems(knock on wood).
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Posted 19 February 2010 - 11:12 PM

View PostDAVID E, on 19 February 2010 - 07:39 PM, said:

Is it worth it? I have updates from this about twice a week it seems. I don't use Spybot or AdAware anymore and just have Spyware Blaster/Guard, firewall and my trusty router and have had no problems(knock on wood).

I used Defender before installing the Free Microsoft Security Essentials all-in-one Anti-virus and spyware protection (anti-virus/ Defender combined).
I found it worked very well and now with using MSE it's even better. Haven't had any malware problems at all.But as always; it's a matter of choice of what anyone uses......Kenn
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Posted 19 February 2010 - 11:39 PM

One of the main weaknesses of Windows Defender is the fact, that its definitions are updated once a month during Windows updates.
This is absolutely not enough in today's malware world.
Besides, I've never seen Windows Defender actually catching anything.
Malwarebytes and Superantispyware are your best choices.
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Posted 20 February 2010 - 01:55 AM

Malewarebytes sounds like a winner. McAfee never catches anything either and I'm ditching that when it runs out.
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Posted 20 February 2010 - 06:02 AM

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McAfee never catches anything either and I'm ditching that when it runs out.
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Posted 20 February 2010 - 06:24 AM

View PostBroni, on 19 February 2010 - 11:39 PM, said:

One of the main weaknesses of Windows Defender is the fact, that its definitions are updated once a month during Windows updates.
This is absolutely not enough in today's malware world.
Besides, I've never seen Windows Defender actually catching anything.
Malwarebytes and Superantispyware are your best choices.
Broni: Aren't you thinking of Microsoft's Malicious software removal tool that comes out with updates. Defender has many updates during the month and MSE updates almost everyday, sometimes more....
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Posted 20 February 2010 - 06:29 AM

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Aren't you thinking of Microsoft's Malicious software removal tool
Surely, right you're :)
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Posted 20 February 2010 - 01:34 PM

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One of the main weaknesses of Windows Defender is the fact, that its definitions are updated once a month during Windows updates.



Malwarebytes is much better than Windows Defender, but I have Defender on my Windows 7 laptop only because it came installed, it updates roughly 3 times a week through Windows updates. Windows updates is always popping up saying there is an update to install, I look and it's windows defender.
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Posted 21 February 2010 - 01:01 AM

Defender was installed on Vista as well and they do update quite a bit-usually small files in the kb range, thankfully.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 02:29 PM

hate windows defender as it found except nothing.
Love SPy Sweeper & counterspy.

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Posted 19 March 2010 - 05:59 PM

I have to agree with Keeper about Microsoft Security Essentials. I also run Spybot and Winpatrol. I had SAS but it doesn't work correctly on my 64 bit system. I'll re-install it though once they finish with the 64 bit edition, which they tell me will be sometime this month.
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