Windows Defender ATP is dead. Long live Microsoft Defender ATP Microsoft nudged the Windows brand further out of the limelight today by thwacking its anti-malware package with the rebranding stick. Behold, Microsoft Defender ATP. The change is necessary, as Microsoft is unleashing its endpoint protection platform onto the hitherto virgin territory of macOS. Windows Defender first put in …
...will be if Apple blocks it.
I remember seeing, with my own eyes, the advice on Apple's site that anti-virus was something that users should have... but then that vanished some time ago, along with the myth that Apple's OS didn't need AV.
For me, the really interesting popcorn moment will be Apple's response.
Apple and Microsoft have a better working relationship than many people realise, whilst they have fallen out at times they do collaborate now and then.
Neither seems to feel that siloing is as necessary as it once was. But I hope we never see a return of Appleworks for Windows.. Oh jeez did that give me nightmares.
I use Avast free, with occasional corroboration checks using ClamX-AV, on both home and work machines. (Work machine is on a Win network with Outlook Server for mail, so my AV is mainly a backup to the company AV policies for my own peace of mind. Avast Free and ClamX because I'm not an IT/security expert, they have good reputations, I'm not paid enough to buy software for my employer, and Mac security goes on my dime since the IT dept. doesn't support the one Mac on the network any more than they absolutely have to.)
1. I do not have anti-virus software on my macs/linux boxes, even the ones kids use
2. I have had Windows Defrauder on a box the kids used, it got 0wned severely and I needed to get avast to clean up the mess.
I later found the same malware on a Windows box handed to me by an acquaintance 7 whole months later, with defrauder fully up-to-date on it, everything still happy, the system a dog ... cleared it with avast, again.
Yes, you have done it manually/scripting, but ... that involved 1000's of registry keys, when you tried to uninstall it, it would claim it would first need to uninastall <list of all third party software installed>.
GTAV needs to run on Linux, natively, pretty please ... Rockstar sucks, no as much as EA, though ... who use emulator software for Sims on macOS, the software was first developed for Linux, yet still do not support Linux - ea are scum, as is nVidia.
Obligatory Linus: "nVidia, Fuck YOU!" video ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g
If you write an OS, I can believe your "defender" product could be more integrated with it, because it can understand it better (especially if the code is not open) and design and take advantage of features difficult to obtain otherwise. If you just become another antivirus vendor, you have no competitive advantage, and those with more experience are better equipped than you.
I'm afraid Nadella see Windows development as too expensive and with smaller profits - but he doesn't understand Microsoft is built on it (just like Google is built on its search engine) - move away from it and everything else could crumble.
With Office 365 forcing it's way into many organizations by way of Microsoft's monopoly machine, will other end-point security tools be forced out of business?
Also, does this mean that Microsoft's vulnerabilities will get fixed or will they remain to validate the existence of the end-point product?
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The annoying thing about Windows Defender is that it keeps reporting my crack for Windows as a virus... Makes no sense! I compiled the KMS emulator up myself and the code makes no modifications to any files, it just listens on a socket for license requests where it responds with "yep... go ahead".
Tbh, so long as I never run anything as admin, (and certainly never log in as a user with admin privileges), then I don't think an anti malware is necessary. If I can't modify system files, neither can the majority of malware that defender can protect against.
“As part of Microsoft's ongoing effort to move beyond Windows with the likes of Microsoft 365, it is extending this protection to other operating systems.”
What is going to defend these Operating Systems from Microsoft Defender?
‘While Microsoft has published the definition for the data it is collecting, Anderson stated the obvious, "When you sign up to use this threat and vulnerability management, that does get commensurate with a level of that telemetry. And so it ties into a level of telemetry that you have to enable on Windows that is published."’
I'm sorry, I must be having a slow day but that sentence isn't at all obvious to me. Could someone translate it into simple English?
“Wary perhaps of the notoriously litigious world of anti-virus”
Microsoft Security Essentials: Disclaimer of Warranty
Protection is one thing, it's about 30 levels deeper down into things that Professionals, PrivSec and generally advanced users need. I'm tired of MS scraping data 100%, for the 30% that dont know what they are doing. The 'ATP' BuckShot That MS spin should only target home user licenses. I'm so almost too angry to remember all the other shit they've screwed us over that i was angry about ... oohhh. DRIP FEED ?? i get it now.
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