On 12/10/2019 2:59 PM, Panthera Tigris Altaica wrote:
On 2019-12-10 15:54, Alek wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote on 12/10/2019 1:42 PM:
“Microsoft to end updates to Windows 7’s free AV software, Security
Essentials”

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...ssentials.html

“When support for Windows 7 ends on Jan. 14, Microsoft will also stop
providing new malware signatures for its home-grown Security Essentials
software.”

Ok, this is not good. Microsoft is playing hardball here.

I am not impressed with any of the other antivirus products.

Lynn

"Security Essentials, a free antivirus (AV) program that launched in
2008, was originally limited to consumers. However, in 2010, Microsoft
expanded the licensing to small businesses
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13752/windows-security-essentials-eula,
defined as those with 10 or fewer PCs. Two years after that, *MSE was
replaced by Windows Defender* with the launch of Windows 8."

Don't you have Windows Defender?

There are two applications named 'Windows Defender'.


Yes, but...



There's the Windows 7 application which is an absolutely useless anti
spyware application. Worse than useless, it uses RAM and CPU cycles
while achieving nothing.


....although it wasn't very good, it's wasn't as bad as "useless." And
since this the Windows 10 newsgroup, it should be apparent which
Defender is being talked about.

And then there's the Win 8 and later
application which combined Windows Defender and Microsoft Security
Essentials into one and was still utterly useless at killing spyware.
Windows Defender is now Microsoft Defender, and is a little better at
killing spyware, it could hardly be worse.


I completely disagree. It's an excellent anti-virus program, but it's
good to supplement it with MalwareBytes AntiMalware.



--
Ken