WindDefend: Good performance

[Guest]

I posted this before, but it didn't seem to make it to tne NG. The Final
version of Defender seems to be subtly improved. When I have to "allow"
something, it does not "scan" before allowing, but seems to allow
immediately. I believe that indicates an improvement in speed. Also, I am
having good response from alerts. For example, I downloaded David Lipman's
Multi_AV tool, jut to experiement. I knew that it would need firewall
permission to retrieve AV signatures. When I activated WGET.exe, Defender
immediatley alerted to it creating an exclusiion for permission in the
Windows firewall. I allowed, and then WOC firewall blocked it and alerted
that it was trying to access the Internet. So I got 2 alerts for basically
one action - one from Defender, one from WOC. IMO that's not too shabby! BTW
- I ran the KIS and Sophos command line scanners in safe mode using Multi_AV
and they found nothing - but of course WOC had already told me that. Just
experimenting! LOL

 

[Richard Urban]

Thanks for the report. I rarely get anything on my computers so I have no
way of knowing how good, or even if, these programs work. But the four
scanners I have on my box sure wipe out the cookies. (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Chris Wood]

OldRebel,

I have beta2 on my desktop. Do I need to actually get the general release
version or will the automatic update bring it down? The last update I got
was on October 27th with 1.14.1736.7 for the Beta.

Thanks

Chris

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I believe you'll need to do a new download. Might as well do it now and get
it over with!

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OldRebel,

I have beta2 on my desktop. Do I need to actually get the general release
version or will the automatic update bring it down? The last update I got
was on October 27th with 1.14.1736.7 for the Beta.

Thanks

Chris

 

[robin]

Uninstall the old one first. I did not and had problems on all 3 computers
I did this too.
I had to uninstall the new one and reinstall them and finally got it to
work nice
BTW so far no check points have been made by WD just normal Restore points
once a day.
robin

I believe you'll need to do a new download. Might as well do it now and
get it over with!

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