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• Reviewed by: KileyJ

  09-12-2011

  Duration of ownership: 2 Years

  Strengths: It helped me when I got infected

  Weaknesses:

  Overall Evaluation: It helped me when I got infected. Im not using anymore but if I will need it I definetly will

• 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."

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