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Windows Defender

Version: 1593

Downloads Count: 818,534

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Mar 7, 2007

Operating Systems: Windows XP

File Size: 4900 KB

Author: Microsoft

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Editorial Review of Windows Defender

Though not everyone is a fan of Microsoft's antispyware program, we love some of its tools. One top feature is the Software Explorer, which lets you examine and disable programs that launch on Windows startup.

--Preston Gralla

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Reviewed by: sephira01

07-10-2009

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Free, good looking

Weaknesses: slow, very slow

Overall Evaluation: better use Norton Internet Security 2009
Reviewed by: timcrowell

05-29-2009

Duration of ownership: 4 Months

Strengths: it did catch a few others missed

Weaknesses: every copy failed to work after a period of time

Overall Evaluation: microsoft needs to buy someone elses and throw this away
Reviewed by: baseballboy64116

09-27-2008

Duration of ownership: 1 Years

Strengths: Free

Weaknesses: None

Overall Evaluation: Works fine in the background.
Reviewed by: amark

11-15-2007

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Nice looking.

Weaknesses: Big memory footprint, even when real-time is off. Can't disable the service without getting warning notice on startup. Dang thing's always on, even when I told it to turn off. Can't live with that.

Overall Evaluation: I tried this when it first came out years ago, didn't like it. But, in reading a PCworld review, it said the new version can turn off processes. Well, it will kill a process, but they come back with the next boot. So i't's a glorified Task Manager. A Big Task Manager too, takes roughly 30MB of memory just to sit and do nothing, as I turned off real-time. As far as finding spyware, I don't know, I so rarely have a prob with spyware, I don't know if it would help. I find being careful about what you put on your computer is the best way. Research, think. If it's free why? Especially if it's a free toy(games). So, I see no benefit to this thing. If you want to learn what's going on in your computer, use Sysinternals many tools, esp: Process Explorer and Autoruns. That will give anyone massive knowledge, and it's a good way to learn. Sysinternals was developed years ago by smart people. So smart were they, Microsoft bought them and let's them continue their awsome work. Check it out. The best Defender is knowledge.
Reviewed by: grangeek

11-10-2007

Duration of ownership: 20 Months

Strengths: in XP I don't notice it's running. Maybe this is good.

Weaknesses: In XP I don't notice it's running. Is it doing anything? In Vista, it is blocking hardware specific startup software that shipped with my system that I want to use, and not giving me the option of enabling it. Grrr!

Overall Evaluation: Microsoft's incredibly arrogant attitude that it knows better than I do what is best for my computer is intolerable. I'm about to disable it on my Vista machine. Actually, I'm about to upgrade my Vista machine to XP! Vista's bells and whistles do not add value, and do not offset the annoyance factor of constantly having to confirm that "Yes, I do mean it. I do want to do this."
Reviewed by: expeed12

09-25-2007

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Strengths: freeware,no conflict to other softwares...

Weaknesses: omg!!! very very slow scan!!!!

Overall Evaluation: i guess its ok for a freeware,but scan took almost a 2hrs and never found anything...just keep saying that system running okay...

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