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Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista...
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:39:02 -0400
On 7/25/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote: > On 7/24/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote: > > > > > Still needs some work, > > > > > > > > > Doesnt even detect eicar.com :-( > > > someone pointed out to me (thankfully offine) that I am a moron and > Windows Defender only detects Spyware (well except for Claria apps > ;-). > > That leads me to wonder if there is an eicar.com for spyware apps? Any product can detect the Eicar test file, if it wants to. If it doesn't, that doesn't mean it isn't doing it's job. The test file is just a way to check that you have it installed correctly, and that it's active.
So is there any standard way to test to see if your antispyware is active and functioning? BTW: I tried installing other spyware on the machine, but apparently hotbar isnt compatible with IE7 :'-( -JP<who also wonders why defender marked outlook 2007 as spyware in the logs> _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Dude VanWinkle (Jul 24)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Drsolly (Jul 24)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Dude VanWinkle (Jul 25)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Drsolly (Jul 25)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Dude VanWinkle (Jul 25)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Drsolly (Jul 25)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Dude VanWinkle (Jul 25)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Drsolly (Jul 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Fergie (Jul 25)
- RE: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Alex Eckelberry (Jul 25)
- Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista... Dude VanWinkle (Jul 26)