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Windows Defender, More than just Antivirus – Part 1

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:35:26 +0000

Due to my professional activity as a Cyber Security Consultant, I regularly speak with customers about Windows Defender and find that many are not fully aware of all the features and capabilities that Windows Defender offers. Also, when reviewing existing implementations, I’ve noticed a pattern of some common issues.

I guess the blog post title ‘Windows Defender, more than just Antivirus’ says it all. The objective of today’s blog post is to provide you with a brief overview of Windows Defender and provide some advice on how to get the most out of it.

How To test if your Antivirus program is working

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:29:38 +0000

I was doing some Antivirus stuff this afternoon now let me share with you how to test if your Antivirus program is working, e.g. alerts you in the event of a virus. Of course you can go to certain places on the internet where it won’t take long until you get a real virus, but that’s probably not what you want to do, so here’s a brief description how to use the “Test-Virus”.

Forefront vs. the competition

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:09:57 +0000

With two customers telling me within just one week that they both have plans to replace their existing client security solutions with Microsoft Forefront Client Security I thought it’s about time to get a better understanding of the FCS product. After having visited the Microsoft Forefront Client Security product page I continued searching the web for additional information and stumbled upon the Forefront vs. the competition blog post on Microsoft-NOW.

Managing Microsoft Security Essentials from the Command Line

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:44:32 +0000

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is Microsoft’s free Antivirus Software which helps protecting clients against viruses and spyware. For years I had used other free Antivirus programs on my home based clients, but have switched them all to MSE since it’s release in September 2009.

The MSE binaries are located in the following folder:* C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials*. In that folder we also find the MpCmdRun.exe which provides a command line interface for MSE. The tool provides the following options: