Kay said:
Every time I start my computer Magic Jack starts up then Windows Defender ask
me to approve it I am getting tried of this is there some way around this?
One of the deficiencies of Windows Defender is that it does not allow
remembering your choices regarding Allowing or Denying the actions of a
process on which it alerts. Microsoft doesn't quite understand how a
HIPS program (with app rules) works and instead relies on their scheme
of monitoring how many users allowed or denied an action (i.e, the
SpyNet ratings).
What you probably want to do is enlist in the advanced SpyNet setup (to
get more information) but DISABLE the following option:
Choose if Windows Defender should notify about:
|_| Software that has not yet been classified for risks.
When you enable advanced SpyNet mode, it auto-enables the above option.
That means any program that is not yet classified as safe will generate
the alert. It seems to take a ridiculously long time to get a program
classified. Some well-known programs that existed long before WD showed
up at Microsoft (or from when it was Sunbelt's Counterspy) and yet they
have not been classified. For example, Truecrypt existed before WD yet
Truecrypt has yet to be classified. If a program you use is currently
listed as "Not yet classified", assume it never will be.
If you look at the MagicJack program in WD's Software Explorer, it is
probably listed as "Not yet classified". The option above would alert
you when the non-classified program makes a change. Because of the lack
of remembering a user's Allow/Block choice and because classification
takes so ridiculously long (i.e., never in regards to lifecycles of
versioning of software), you'll have to decide whether or not to lower
WD's security by not having it alert on actions performed by non-
classified programs.
That a program is not classified by Microsoft is not a reason why a user
should not use the program. Not being classified is just them admitting
"we don't know" with the implication "we'll be slow to decide". That
Microsoft decided to maintain a history of allowed or denied changes yet
not let the user remember those choices to eliminate them again for
software the *user* deems is safe is why I repeatedly go trialing other
solutions.
