October 29, 2007
10 Reasons why you should not rely on Windows Defender
PakNik Blogged about a good topic today on pcproblems.wordpress.com
Here’s a quick excerpt:
Windows Defender is a free antispyware software (it comes with Windows XP and Vista) that is supposed to protect your pc against spyware. But why do so many people choose other third party software? Today it’s time to reveal 10 reasons that make Microsoft’s program not good enough to deliver effective protection.
Windows Defender allows too much spyware to evade it. It’s not that we dreamed about this last night: sources that are notorious worldwide have performed tests revealing this. Just check the links bellow and you’ll see the truth:PC Mag: “It runs a little slowly, and in a quick test against the popular spyware tool Ad-Aware, it was beaten hands down.”
ZDNet: “Windows Defender missed half of the spyware on our test machine, and didn’t fully remove half of the spyware samples in our tests.”
PC Advisor: “According to Australian testing company, Enex Testlab, in full scanning mode Windows Defender could only […]
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