Ps Get rid of McAfee and all the others asap. You may have to work
hard to really get it out, as it's designed so a virus can't uninstall
it as its first action.
On 23/01/2015, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yup, Defender is the renamed Security Essentials embedded in Win8.
> And the malicious software tool needs downloading and executing each
> time you want to use it. (Often you would download to a usb stick on
> one machine and run it from the stick on a suspect machine that you
> had of course taken off the local network.)
> Jez
>
> On 23/01/2015, Martin Walters <mwalters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone that responded.
>>
>> Wayne's comments on HTTPS interception do suggest that is what I'm
>> experiencing.
>>
>> As far as the M*soft tools, I already have Defender (Sec Essentials for
>> Win 8). Until I open up Defender (which will require an effective
>> disabling of McAfee first), I'm curious about how virus scanning will be
>> done. Is this what Defender now does?
>>
>> I've also downloaded the Malicious software tool, which doesn't seem to
>> be a visible install, so do I assume that it gets updated and therefore
>> needs to be downloaded before scanning?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 2015-01-22 6:10 AM, David Thatcher wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 05:53:26PM -0500, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>> As to why you're having all the trouble you are I just don't know. But
>>>> I'd throw out the stuff you have and go with Microsoft stuff. I
>>>> suspect
>>>> your problems will go away.
>>>
>>> As much as it pains me to say, with my antipathy to the supplier:
>>>
>>> +1! Use Defender and Security Essentials...
>>>
>>> davidt
>>>
>>>
>>
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