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How Windows Defender Identifies Spyware

Source: Microsoft
Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Identifying and analyzing spyware is a complex challenge. New forms of spyware keeps on develop, and the same technology that can make spyware malicious and unwanted also appears in software that users want to keep and use on their computers, such as antivirus software. Windows Defender helps identify and block known malicious spyware programs. It asks before installing the programs that it identifies as legitimate, and recommends that not to install programs that have not yet been analyzed and defined.


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