From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Gregg N"  wrote in message
news:44542e9a$1{at}w3....
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> MS got cute with their Windows Defender beta. Updates for it are now done
>> via Windows Update. There is still a manual update but Microsft did their
>> best to hide that (click the down arrow next to help ,  choose about
>> Windows Defender, check for Updates ).  After this week, I decided it was
>> best to do away with Defender and the turn autoupdates off. It's a simple
>> matter of trust and it's a shame that Microsoft doesn't understand the
>> concept.
>>
>
> I must have missed something in this thread. What did WU do that made you
> mistrust it? Using it to update Windows Defender seems like a reasonable
> idea. Why not?
>
> Gregg

On one level ( a central update mechanism ) the tie in of Defender to WU
makes sense. Yet to use it one has to turn on updates and subject one's
computer to an unannounced WU update/reboot as happened this past week. It
just seems to me that antivirus/trojan signature files and such should be a
separate process

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