Microsoft Unleashes The Defender
Microsoft Unleashes The Defender: "Reports surfaced on Friday from Microsoft bloggers of Microsoft's overhaul of the Windows anti-spyware software. The new version will be called Microsoft Windows Defender and will be included in the upcoming Windows Vista.
Posts by both Steve Dodson and James Garms at the team blog provided some great information. Some interesting revelations came out of the blog posts too. One fact is the anti-spyware division is working with Windows Update. This means the security software coming in Vista will be updated through the Windows Update side. The team blog Anti-Malware also said these updates will be available for XP as well. The Anti-Malware blog said this about the new development:
Making the engineering change from 'Windows AntiSpyware' to 'Windows Defender' took a lot of careful coordination across our team to ensure that the strings in the UI got changed, the help files all got updated, registry keys, file names and properties, as well as a couple of images all got changed. All this work was completed and tested last Thursday, and is currently making its way through our build systems in Windows to make it into the main build environment, where official builds come from.
We're pretty excited by the name, and by the sleek new UI and other improvements we've been making in it to help make Windows Vista the best operating system around! But Windows Defender is about a lot more than just a name change. The engine is now moved to a system service, and signatures are delivered over Windows Update. The detection mechanisms have also been radically improved by applying to spyware threats all the great detection technology we use in our antivirus engine.
This marks Microsoft's latest chapter into cyber security. While it is logical for them to build a network to protect their own products, this has flown in the face of major cyber security companies like Symantec and others. They have protested some of these actions from Microsoft. They will probably continue to fight with Microsoft over this type of thing too."
Posts by both Steve Dodson and James Garms at the team blog provided some great information. Some interesting revelations came out of the blog posts too. One fact is the anti-spyware division is working with Windows Update. This means the security software coming in Vista will be updated through the Windows Update side. The team blog Anti-Malware also said these updates will be available for XP as well. The Anti-Malware blog said this about the new development:
Making the engineering change from 'Windows AntiSpyware' to 'Windows Defender' took a lot of careful coordination across our team to ensure that the strings in the UI got changed, the help files all got updated, registry keys, file names and properties, as well as a couple of images all got changed. All this work was completed and tested last Thursday, and is currently making its way through our build systems in Windows to make it into the main build environment, where official builds come from.
We're pretty excited by the name, and by the sleek new UI and other improvements we've been making in it to help make Windows Vista the best operating system around! But Windows Defender is about a lot more than just a name change. The engine is now moved to a system service, and signatures are delivered over Windows Update. The detection mechanisms have also been radically improved by applying to spyware threats all the great detection technology we use in our antivirus engine.
This marks Microsoft's latest chapter into cyber security. While it is logical for them to build a network to protect their own products, this has flown in the face of major cyber security companies like Symantec and others. They have protested some of these actions from Microsoft. They will probably continue to fight with Microsoft over this type of thing too."
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