Windows Defender to be final name for Windows anti-spyware technologies

[Bill Sanderson]

It's unfortunate that a Google search finds only the shareware by the same
name.

I'm open to suggestions on how to differentiate the two programs.<g>

Windows ® Defender

(I'll admit to not having tried that in Google, and suspecting that it won't
do the job, though.)

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Windows ® Defender

(I'll admit to not having tried that in Google, and suspecting that it won't
do the job, though.)

Yep, I tried that before I posted. No help.
:-(

Bob Vanderveen

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Yep, I tried that before I posted. No help.
:-(

I'm impressed to see that it survives cutting and pasting via Notepad in XP,
though!

Windows ® Defender

 

[Anonymous Bob]

I'm impressed to see that it survives cutting and pasting via Notepad in XP,
though!

Windows ® Defender

It's the superscript "TM" that causes problems.<g>
That's been a problem for a *long* time:
http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/1996-May/013817.html

Bob Vanderveen

 

[Guest]

i just read the blog on http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/ and found
something very interesting:

"As part of this engineering milestone, we've also started to prime the
Windows Update software distribution channels with signatures for Windows
Defender. This is important so the signatures are available when we ship the
next beta. So, for enterprise and corporate customers that are using Windows
Server Update Services, you will start seeing "Windows Defender" in the
product category dialog as well as a new classification called "Definition
Updates"

does that mean that I need to have Administrative privelege to update
definition signatures. i don't get it at all, as far as i know limited
account can't use Window Update. I wish that Window Defender support LIMITED
ACCOUNT on WINDOW XP. hopefully they didn't forget LIMITED ACCOUNT features

 

[Bill Sanderson]

It's unfortunate that a Google search finds only the shareware by the same
name.

I'm open to suggestions on how to differentiate the two programs.<g>

http://www.adamlyttle.com/view.php?m=25

I suspect that once pages with the new name go live, Google's stats will
change very quickly.