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Guest
Is it me or is Windows Defender a huge step back from MS Anti-Spyware?
I have a standard installation of Windows Defender on Windows XP Tablet Ed
SP2 - all hotfixes applied and I have set WD to allow me as an Advanced
member of SpyNet.
Windows Defender will not run a scheduled scan, it acts as though no scan is
scheduled even though it is, but warns me that I have not run a scan in x
number of days ... (becoming annoying).
Windows Defender will not record the actions against 'detected' items - I
have DameWare MRC on my PC. This is a requirement for my job and is detected
every single time I run a scan and it asks what it should do ... believe me,
the action is the same as the last time and the time before that and ...
ignore it. (incredibly annoying ... would be more so if it actually ran the
scan every day, like it is supposed to).
Everytime I log into my PC, Windows Defender detects a "change" to the
startup items ... actually, there is no change and it just keeps on asking
what it should do with exactly the same items as it has seen since I
installed Windows Defender. (incredibly annoying). I need these items to
start automatically.
I know this is beta software, but the previous beta was so much better at
this than the new one.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Defender on a couple of
occasions, with no difference in functionality. Windows Defender is fully
uptodate. I have also noticed this behaviour on Windows XP Home with SP2.
If anyone from Microsofts team is reading this, please fix these problems as
it is getting to the point where I am considering paying someone else for
this technology.
I have a standard installation of Windows Defender on Windows XP Tablet Ed
SP2 - all hotfixes applied and I have set WD to allow me as an Advanced
member of SpyNet.
Windows Defender will not run a scheduled scan, it acts as though no scan is
scheduled even though it is, but warns me that I have not run a scan in x
number of days ... (becoming annoying).
Windows Defender will not record the actions against 'detected' items - I
have DameWare MRC on my PC. This is a requirement for my job and is detected
every single time I run a scan and it asks what it should do ... believe me,
the action is the same as the last time and the time before that and ...
ignore it. (incredibly annoying ... would be more so if it actually ran the
scan every day, like it is supposed to).
Everytime I log into my PC, Windows Defender detects a "change" to the
startup items ... actually, there is no change and it just keeps on asking
what it should do with exactly the same items as it has seen since I
installed Windows Defender. (incredibly annoying). I need these items to
start automatically.
I know this is beta software, but the previous beta was so much better at
this than the new one.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Defender on a couple of
occasions, with no difference in functionality. Windows Defender is fully
uptodate. I have also noticed this behaviour on Windows XP Home with SP2.
If anyone from Microsofts team is reading this, please fix these problems as
it is getting to the point where I am considering paying someone else for
this technology.