Critical Windows Defender Patch

Yeah, i noticed that on a recent tech site i visit to. but it was patched recently through Windows Update this past Tuesday.

personally one reason i like Windows Defender over other anti-virus programs is it's more transparent so it does not interfere with things and is light on resources etc as i figure that paired with something like Voodooshield/RansomFree (both free and light on resources) i should be able to keep my chances of any serious virus infection to a minimum. so while other anti-virus programs might have better virus detection rates than Windows Defender (i have not looked but i imagine that's the case) i should be fine especially given Voodooshield pretty much blocks everything from running that you did not specifically allow as it's pretty much my primary wall of defense against viruses etc.

but yeah, as you already know, it's pretty standard for Windows Defender to be disabled if your running other anti-virus programs as i heard it's a bad idea to two two anti-virus programs at the same time. but the two programs i mentioned above (Voodooshield/RansomFree) don't mess with your anti-virus as Voodooshield is pretty much a anti-executable program(it just assumes everything you did not allow is bad and blocks it automatically. i typically disable Voodooshield during Windows Updates just to help ensure it does not interfere with anything Windows is installing etc) and RansomFree is specifically designed to block Ransomware (which getting hit with any ransomware would be much worse then your typical virus infection since you will pretty much lose all of your files on hard drives etc connected to the computer.) which i imagine a lot of typical anti-virus programs won't be as good at specifically blocking ransomware like RansomFree is since RansomFree does not rely on definition updates to detect ransomware but instead detects ransomware based on how it infects systems in general as they claim it can block all or nearly all types of ransomware. even if RansomFree only blocked say 95% of ransomware that would still drastically lower your chances of a ransomware infection and that's assuming something managed to get by Voodooshield which is quite unlikely.

but anyways, back to the Windows Defender critical patch thing... i have not looked into the details but can someone be infected if Windows Defender is disabled? ; because if they cannot be infected then they don't have much to worry about especially because lets say they got a alternative anti-virus installed, which means Windows Defender is disabled currently, and decide say a few months from now to go back to Windows Defender by uninstalling your current anti-virus program and at that point Windows Updates will eventually load the update so that flaw is patched automatically.

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I see. so you tend to play the more cautious/extra safe approach. but i can't blame you as once it's patched then we ain't got to even worry about whether it can be exploited or not if it's disabled. but just just hope it can't be exploited if it's disabled otherwise there will be a fair portion of the public vulnerable.

p.s. but damn, that would suck finding bombs still active and having to evacuate more than a half mile radius to play it safe for them to be defused and even said in the article with time they become more dangerous as components break down within them. but just just hope being they did not detonate back in the day in WW2 when they were dropped that they won't go off as that could be a disaster if stuff like that is capable of taking out up to a half mile radius or so.

In general it's not a good idea to run two anti-virus programs like that at once. my advice... either run Windows Defender or something else. personally i like Windows Defender as it's decent enough and what's nice about it is it's light on resources and does not interfere with things like other anti-virus programs might.

i run Windows Defender in combination with Voodooshield (basically a anti-executable program) and RansomFree (strictly blocks Ransomware as it does not look for specific strains of Ransomware but blocks Ransomware based on the way it behaves which they say it basically blocks all Ransomware(or next to everything)).