• Windows Defender will start blocking and removing malware

    Posted on January 31, 2018 at 05:44 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Okay, okay. The headlines floating around don’t say that, but I think “Defender to block malware” accurately describes Microsoft’s promised next step in its battle to clean our machines.

    You know those registry scanners that tell you that you have 2,136 bad registry entries and it’ll only cost you $137 to have them all removed?

    On March 1, Microsoft’s going to start kicking those “coercive apps” to the curb. Which is something Windows Defender should’ve done about two decades ago.

    Details from Lawrence Abrams at BleepingComputer and Martin Brinkmann on ghacks. Remains to be seen how it’ll work in the real world.

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