Hey gang,
I am a new Windows 8.1 user, having installed it on a new system build I did a couple of weeks ago.
Prior to this, I was running Windows 7 and used Avast for my anti-virus, and Defender for the rest.
I understand with Windows 8, Defender is really what MS Security Essentials used to be, which I had heard was pretty good.
I am somewhat of an advanced user, not an IT Pro by any means but have been a Windows user for many years and have never minded digging in and tuning it to my preferences. I also practice " safe hexing" so feel fairly confident I really do not need major layers of protection a more average user might benefit more from.
So with this new build and Windows 8.1, I am thinking I will just stick with Defender for all my AV and Security needs. I am curious, is there a way to set Defender to download and install it's new Definitions updates on it's own? Without having that selected for all my windows updates? I prefer having Windows Update notify me when there are new udpates and letting me choose what and when to install them. That is one thing I liked about using Avast, it did that on it's own on pretty much a daily basis and I did not have to manually download and install them.
I took a look in Defender's settings and did not see one where I could set it to do those updates for it automatically. Of course my aging eyes could have easily missed it.
Thanks for any tips,
- Don
I am a new Windows 8.1 user, having installed it on a new system build I did a couple of weeks ago.
Prior to this, I was running Windows 7 and used Avast for my anti-virus, and Defender for the rest.
I understand with Windows 8, Defender is really what MS Security Essentials used to be, which I had heard was pretty good.
I am somewhat of an advanced user, not an IT Pro by any means but have been a Windows user for many years and have never minded digging in and tuning it to my preferences. I also practice " safe hexing" so feel fairly confident I really do not need major layers of protection a more average user might benefit more from.
So with this new build and Windows 8.1, I am thinking I will just stick with Defender for all my AV and Security needs. I am curious, is there a way to set Defender to download and install it's new Definitions updates on it's own? Without having that selected for all my windows updates? I prefer having Windows Update notify me when there are new udpates and letting me choose what and when to install them. That is one thing I liked about using Avast, it did that on it's own on pretty much a daily basis and I did not have to manually download and install them.
I took a look in Defender's settings and did not see one where I could set it to do those updates for it automatically. Of course my aging eyes could have easily missed it.
Thanks for any tips,
- Don
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self Made
- CPU
- I7 4820K
- Motherboard
- EVGA X-79 Dark
- Memory
- Corsair Dominator Platinum 16 gb 2133 mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GTX 770 4GB
- Browser
- IE11
- Antivirus
- Defender