Defender

Does Defender stop spam? I have Vista Premium with it. I also have Lavasoft
Adaware. I ran it awhile ago and found over 60 malicious spams. I kind of
thought Defender would stop this.

Greg wrote:
> Does Defender stop spam? I have Vista Premium with it. I also have Lavasoft
> Adaware. I ran it awhile ago and found over 60 malicious spams. I kind of
> thought Defender would stop this.
>
>

Another word for Defender is Defenseless. No, it does not stop spam. I
thought Windows Mail would do that. If not, check out Thunderbird at
www.mozilla.com/thunderbird. It does a great job of filtering out spam.

Alias

"Greg" <greg@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Does Defender stop spam? I have Vista Premium with it. I also have
> Lavasoft Adaware. I ran it awhile ago and found over 60 malicious spams. I
> kind of thought Defender would stop this.
>

Greg,

SPAM is unsolicited e-mails (junk mail etc).
Windows Defender is designed to prevent unauthorised system modifications or
the insertion of other malware see
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/sec...t/overview.mspx


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Mike Brannigan

Defender is for spyware, not spam email. Keep in mind that protected mode in
IE does not work if you have UAC turned off.


"Greg" wrote:

> Does Defender stop spam? I have Vista Premium with it. I also have Lavasoft
> Adaware. I ran it awhile ago and found over 60 malicious spams. I kind of
> thought Defender would stop this.
>
>
>