"History Fan" <UnknownplacesonEarth@unknown11.com> wrote in message
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> "Broooz" <reply@newsgroup.com> wrote in message
> news:3H17h.1510$k74.505@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk ...
>> Has anyone any up to date views on whether Defender is a reasonable
>> way of protecting against spyware. It got some poor reviews a
>> while back but I wonder if it has improved. It certainly picked up
>> some things that spybot missed.
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> The final version of Windows Defender seems to be more stable
> than the beta versions, but I'm skeptical as to its detection
> capabilities. I'm not using it now. Instead, I've got WinPatrol as
> my active anti-spyware monitor.

I'll admit that I haven't bothered with it. Call me prejudice or
whatever, I'm givning them another year or two to see if it grows into
a bloated resource hog. Anyone want to be that it won't?

cmsix

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