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Bizarre. Customers without Antivirus In cases where customers can’t install or run antivirus software, Microsoft recommends manually setting the registry key
by morsch 9y ago
Bizarre.
Customers without Antivirus
In cases where customers can’t install or run antivirus software, Microsoft recommends manually setting the registry key as described below in order to receive the January 2018 security updates.
- testplzignore 9y agoSounds like Microsoft can't tell the difference between "has AV installed that will break" and "has no AV installed", which makes sense. It's probably infeasible to reliably fingerprint all existing AV software.
- Slansitartop 9y ago> Sounds like Microsoft can't tell the difference between "has AV installed that will break" and "has no AV installed", which makes sense. It's probably infeasible to reliably fingerprint all existing AV software. For something like this, I think best-effort bad-AV detection would have been best. Seems pretty insane to disable security patching because they can't be 100% certain that you have a compatibly AV.
- anonymfus 9y agoIncompatibility here means unbootable state.
- Slansitartop 9y agoBut it also means that people with perfectly acceptable configurations are left in an insecure state, without an unexpected magic incantation (a registry hack) that most probably will never know about. Disabling security patches is not acceptable in current year without A LOT of nasty and annoying warnings.
- sundvor 9y agoIt makes sense though. Only AV programs that comply may set the setting. Without a compliant AV program, there's nothing to do that set - unless you do it manually.
- speedie 9y agoDo I read this correctly ? M$ gave us the registry key with which we can convince winblows that we are runing AV , when infact , we uninstalled it ?