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>[anti-virus vendors] just wanted their old solutions to keep working even if that meant reducing the security of our mutual customer — the very thing they were
by ancarda 9y ago
>[anti-virus vendors] just wanted their old solutions to keep working even if that meant reducing the security of our mutual customer — the very thing they were supposed to be improving.
Wow. Is there a backstory here in regards to the development of Windows Defender? I think that was introduced with Vista?
- oblio 9y agoI don't know, but honestly, most antivirus companies are such clowns that it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft created their own antivirus just to force everyone to be up to par. Which they still seem to be failing at...
- proactivesvcs 9y agoI always found it interesting that Defender has always been touted as being well-behaved when installed next to other anti-virus. I have preferred to disable it (IME, Defender's detection rate is poor, and the off-set in possible stability problems is not worth it) but haven't actually come across Defender misbehaving, other than false positives. This suggests it's probably using the operating system correctly, in exception to its peers.