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Microsoft Windows Defender 1.1

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Free
Offers real-time protection
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Incomplete spyware protection

Microsoft Windows Defender 1.1 Review

by Ryan Naraine

- Microsoft's free Windows Defender ships standard with Windows Vista and is available as a free download for Windows XP SP2. If it had presented itself as an anti-adware program, we'd be less hard on it, but Defender's Web site asserts that the software provides "Spyware protection for free," and in that claim it fails.

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