Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up

Re:Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to sp... by yuhong on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:23PM (#6087398)

Personally on this Win8 laptop I uninstalled McAfee first to switch to Windows Defender only to find Norton Online Backup was leaking memory too so I uninstalled it too and it was fine after that.

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Re:Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to sp... by nikatwork on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:57PM (#6087525)

At this point, it feels like Windows AV software makes a machine run far worse than would an actual virus.

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Re:Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to sp... by com2kid on Monday July 22, 2013 @09:01PM (#6087539)

Windows Defender is pretty damn good, try it out. The performance overhead is pretty minimal and it is generally well behaved.

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Re:Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to sp... by yuhong on Monday July 22, 2013 @09:02PM (#6087543)

Or MSE for pre-Win8 users. (Windows Defender only protects against spyware in pre-Win8)

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