defender?

I would say you are being "correctly" concerned. Though Microsoft does a good job of patching and hotfixing (no flames plz) there are sometime problems that arise. SP2 was a nightmare when it was first released, and sometimes simple little hotfixes can go in bad and corrupt all kinds of weird stuff. The solution is usually to uninstall the offending patch. I NEED to eb able to do that at work, and LIKE to be able to do this at home. Are you being overly concerned? I would say no you arent.

I would say you are being "correctly" concerned. Though Microsoft does a good job of patching and hotfixing (no flames plz) there are sometime problems that arise. SP2 was a nightmare when it was first released, and sometimes simple little hotfixes can go in bad and corrupt all kinds of weird stuff. The solution is usually to uninstall the offending patch. I NEED to eb able to do that at work, and LIKE to be able to do this at home. Are you being overly concerned? I would say no you arent.

I don't agree, the updates your are talking about, are like definition files, much like in any antivirus program. I have never been able to uninstall virus definition files either, so this doesn't worry me too much.

Yes, you are being overly concerned, in this particular case only. The Windows Defender updates are very much like virus definition updates and not really related to the Windows O/S updates, even though they use the same updater. You can always uninstall Defender, just like you can always uninstall say, Grisoft AVG Antivirus, but you can't (and really don't have any need to be able to) "uninstall" an update to the spyware/antivirus definition, or even the engine itself.

i guess but with root kits been mentioned,i thoughht i would find out more,tanks for the input

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