Windows Defender is part of a fundamental security related improvement offered by Microsoft in its brand new operating system. This feature, which is available in all editions of the operating system, helps home users protect their computers to a great extent by timely detecting and removing spyware and unwanted software, before they can cause any harm to the system. It guards your computer against pop-up issues, sluggish performance issues, and security threats.
If Windows Defender detects the presence of spyware, whether during the course of a scan or caught by real-time protection, you must decide how to handle it If you see an alert triggered by real-time protection, as shown above, click the alert balloon (or, if it deftes before you have a chance to click it, click the Action Center icon and click Potentially Harmful Software Detected) Alternatively, on the Home page of Windows Defender.
Advantages of Windows Defender include:
• Scanning options which enable users to organize timely scans of their systems on a regular basis. Users can also decide on the alert levels and actions that they want to perform when potential spyware is detected during a scan.
•A system that monitors and recommends actions against spyware whenever the spyware is detected.
• Users can view threat details and choose actions on per-threat basis.
Moreover, Windows 7 Defender includes several performance enhancements over its earlier editions like:
• In order to avoid scanning system files, the system file cache is used for the scan.
• Unique threat identification is assigned for each unknown file and kept in the cache. This helps avoid performance-intensive scanning for unknown threats.
• Although maximum cache size is maintained, the threats that no longer exist are removed from the cache.
• The scan schedule is based on idle time notification from the Task Scheduler so that it does not get much complicated for the user.
For each suspected spyware program, you can take one of three actions:
● REMOVE WINDOWS DEFENDER PERMANENTLY REMOVES THE DETECTED SPYWARE FROM YOUR COMPUTER.
● Quarantine Windows Defender moves the program to a different folder and prevents the program from running.
If Windows Defender detects the presence of spyware, whether during the course of a scan or caught by real-time protection, you must decide how to handle it If you see an alert triggered by real-time protection, as shown above, click the alert balloon (or, if it deftes before you have a chance to click it, click the Action Center icon and click Potentially Harmful Software Detected) Alternatively, on the Home page of Windows Defender.
Advantages of Windows Defender include:
• Scanning options which enable users to organize timely scans of their systems on a regular basis. Users can also decide on the alert levels and actions that they want to perform when potential spyware is detected during a scan.
•A system that monitors and recommends actions against spyware whenever the spyware is detected.
• Users can view threat details and choose actions on per-threat basis.
Moreover, Windows 7 Defender includes several performance enhancements over its earlier editions like:
• In order to avoid scanning system files, the system file cache is used for the scan.
• Unique threat identification is assigned for each unknown file and kept in the cache. This helps avoid performance-intensive scanning for unknown threats.
• Although maximum cache size is maintained, the threats that no longer exist are removed from the cache.
• The scan schedule is based on idle time notification from the Task Scheduler so that it does not get much complicated for the user.
For each suspected spyware program, you can take one of three actions:
● REMOVE WINDOWS DEFENDER PERMANENTLY REMOVES THE DETECTED SPYWARE FROM YOUR COMPUTER.
● Quarantine Windows Defender moves the program to a different folder and prevents the program from running.
