Windows 10: Microsoft Windows Defender

I am currently "mainly" using an 6 year old PC for my day to day activities.

It functions great for it's age, especially so since I changed the old graphics card that died recently.

And so though I stopped using it for certain activities, now I am using it mainly for *khm* playing games *khm*.


Anyway, just the other day I did a "favor" to pass some files from a pc on to another, and due to a memmory shorthage on my USB I had to pass it onto my PC, however when I did I noticed an autorun file, so I immidietly scanned the USB and it turned out it had a worm.

I was glad Windows defender was smart enough to recognise it as such, however after that I wanted to do a full scan on my PC to check if the worm hid somewhere.

However little did I know that in fact...The scan is slow...

That is not to mention that I didn't expect it do be slow, but "any" worthwile antivirus would finish a full scan much faster then WDefender would.

It is using 100% of my CPU that it can use ofc, and I am more then fine with that, since it is a full scan.

However since it is using all those resources, I was expecting it to finish in 2-3 hours max.

The amount of memory it has to scan is somewhere around 750 GB, and I in previous full scan cases with namely Comodo antivirus the full scan lasted around 2 hours, so I am pretty sure it is not unreasonable to ask the same or something similar from WDefender?


As I am writing this the scan is still going and has been for the past 6 hours, and though it says it estimates to finish in 45 mins, I personally estimate it will finish in 3-6 hours.

I would be more then happy if the service provided matched the time consumption it does, but that seems highly unlikely. ;

Thus I am left wondering: "Is it better to just look for a "better" antivirus, or stick to WDefender as this PC isn't that important to me anymore? Even though there are service executables that also eat RAM".


*sigh*

:)

 

Windows Defender Released

Microsoft has released the final version of its Windows Defender anti-spyware utility. Windows Defender is a product of the Microsoft acquisition of GIANT Software. Previously known as Windows AntiSpyware, after a two years beta period it's now available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under the name Windows Defender. Windows Defender incorporates Real-Time Protection to monitor systems for spyware activity, automated spyware removal with scheduled scans, full integration with Internet Explorer 7.0 and automatic spyware definition updates from Microsoft. Windows Defender is available freely to all customers running a genuine copy of Windows. Microsoft has also announced that customers will each be allowed to report two support incidents for free with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Source: DailyTech

 

What the hell, windows defender?

So, a while back I disabled windows defender via gpedit. Come to find out it's running again, and telling me my miner is a "severe" threat, despite still being disabled in gpedit. There's a few new entries related to windows defender in gpedit that didn't used to be there before. I'm guessing this happened during the big spring update. UAC keeps becoming re-enabled somehow, as well. For now I have a shitty registry key that's supposed to disable windows defender instead, hopefully it works.

Damn, Microsoft. They were pushing users to upgrade to 10 so hard, even resorting to plain trickery to get it on as many machines as possible. Now not only is it doing hardcore data mining in the background, but it's changing settings all on its own to whatever Microsoft wants. One step closer to pushing me to Ubuntu or something. I'd already be there if I didn't think it would be an arduous task learning how to computer all over again while simultaneously breaking a lot of games, which is mostly what I use this computer for...

Bill Gates needs to go back to Microsoft just so he can kick all the guys responsible for w10 squarely in the nuts. /rant

 

What the hell, windows defender?

Big Brother knows what is best for you, why do you resist?