Yup, Defender is the renamed Security Essentials embedded in Win8.
And the malicious software tool needs downloading and executing each
time you want to use it. (Often you would download to a usb stick on
one machine and run it from the stick on a suspect machine that you
had of course taken off the local network.)
Jez
On 23/01/2015, Martin Walters <mwalters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone that responded.
>
> Wayne's comments on HTTPS interception do suggest that is what I'm
> experiencing.
>
> As far as the M*soft tools, I already have Defender (Sec Essentials for
> Win 8). Until I open up Defender (which will require an effective
> disabling of McAfee first), I'm curious about how virus scanning will be
> done. Is this what Defender now does?
>
> I've also downloaded the Malicious software tool, which doesn't seem to
> be a visible install, so do I assume that it gets updated and therefore
> needs to be downloaded before scanning?
>
> Martin
>
> On 2015-01-22 6:10 AM, David Thatcher wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 05:53:26PM -0500, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> As to why you're having all the trouble you are I just don't know. But
>>> I'd throw out the stuff you have and go with Microsoft stuff. I suspect
>>> your problems will go away.
>>
>> As much as it pains me to say, with my antipathy to the supplier:
>>
>> +1! Use Defender and Security Essentials...
>>
>> davidt
>>
>>
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