In my extreme hopes I looked forward to a release from MS for virus and other attacks on the operating system.
Ergo, the moment ‘Defender’ was released I installed it.
While ‘waking up’ a laptop running a 4 year old version of XP Pro with a very annoying Adware message that the register was in need of repair. Only PCTools virus program was able to rid the ‘nasty’ virus.
It also registered itself as an ‘anti-virus’ program within the firewall.
Surprisingly ‘Defender’ does not register as such; although I’ve had no attacks on my system.
What gives? Is MS so ashamed of it’s own ability?
Is it anti-viral or not?
As of the moment I use it (stupidly?) as my only protection.
