Windows Defender Has never found a problem
#1
Posted 15 February 2007 - 06:48 PM
I have had Windows Defender for quite a while and it has never found a problem! This has to be wrong. Full scans and quick scans always end with..."Your computer is running normally."
Ad-aware SE and Spybot always find problems. Has anyone else found this problem? Is it a problem? Could it be that whatever definitions loaded to Defender never arrive in my system. Sounds to good to be true???
I upgraded to 1.1.1593 yesterday and ran both a full and quick scan and...you guessed it...no problems.
#2
Posted 15 February 2007 - 07:34 PM
If Spybot and AdAware are finding something other than cookies, I would be concerned.
A lot of users NEVER find any malware on their computers. I credit that more to smart user habits than what antimalware product they have.
What are Spybot and AdAware finding?
#3
Posted 15 February 2007 - 09:46 PM
Thanks for your reply.
As far as I can tell, I have the latest version 1.1.1593, Engine Version is 1.1.2101.0. This is strange that you have a totally different version number to mine.
Every time I checked Defender for updates it would say none available and when I saw someone on here was using version 1.1.1593 I uninstalled my version and installed the (what I thought was the most recent) version.
Sorry if I mislead you...my Ad-aware and Spybot are finding cookies. I just kill them off and all is well, but my concern is that Defender has never, ever found a cookie. Sounds like a false negative to me.
It's not the sites I visit so much as where my kids go. (Nothing sinister just kids sites.)
I like to run all these cookie killers at least once a week to keep things working smoothly.
#4
Posted 15 February 2007 - 10:37 PM
Read the info in the link below to block the adware/tracking cookies known as third party cookies from installing on your comp. Then you want have to be bothered by them.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm
Block third party cookies in Firefox
http://www.elharo.com/blog/privacy/2006/11...s-in-firefox-2/
This post has been edited by buddy215: 15 February 2007 - 10:46 PM
#5
Posted 26 May 2007 - 03:48 AM
Aussie Ness, on Feb 16 2007, 03:46 AM, said:
Although this was posted some months ago, I thought I'd add a comment here for the sake of anyone browsing through (like me). Defender is specifically designed NOT to detect tracking cookies. It's surprising how many people still comment on the fact that other programs such as AdAware and Spybot detect lots of things that Defender doesn't - but invariably it turns out that the detected threats are only tracking cookies.
The fact is that if you use your computer with care and take sensible precautions, there's a good chance you won't be infected by spyware, and in those circumstances Defender will continue (correctly) to find nothing!
Here's another statistic: I've never had a false positive alert from Defender. I can't say the same about most of the other antispyware scanners I use.
#6
Posted 25 November 2007 - 03:44 AM
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Posted 30 November 2007 - 08:22 AM

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#8
Posted 24 March 2008 - 02:09 PM
This post has been edited by ///: 24 March 2008 - 02:14 PM
#9
Posted 25 March 2008 - 12:07 PM
hijakd, on Nov 25 2007, 08:44 AM, said:
How many of these detections were tracking cookies?

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