Re: FYI: Windows Defender on Vista...

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

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>
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