Defender

[Greg]

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.

 

[Alias]

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

 

[Mike Brannigan]

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/security/spyware/software/about/overview.mspx

 

[Guest]

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