Defender better worse same Windows Defender Discuss Defender better worse same in the Vista Features forums; Explorer looks frigged... If you have a thread could you link me to it? I'd say bung the dvd in and use its restore feature... else more info crabby...

[crabby]

Explorer looks frigged... If you have a thread could you link me to it? I'd say bung the dvd in and use its restore feature... else more info

crabby

[sacredragon]

here was trhe other post ok ive had 5472 on my laptop and tower about 2 weeks.. im having a little problem all my icons dissapear and reapear when it wants to....and the user acount aint working any help ?it on both systems
(exept now add the one two prior with it and then u can help........ps. i tryed from the disk and it failled that didnt work lol i really dont want to format lol

[crabby]

I am really having a hard time with this one... So your symptoms are;

1) No start bar or task manager ever?

2) Disappearing and reappearing icons with a faulty user account?

Is it both of those... one of those... neither of those?

Have you tried creating a new user? Can you get to the system restore in vista itself?

Sorry to be of such uselessness... but I can't figure what the actual problem is

crabby

[Wiggles]

Defender is ok for deleting startup and programs, etc.
But the perpose of Defender doesn't really show as it doesn't pick up anything as I have Ad-aware SE & Spybot..they seem to pick up the tracking cookies and others but not Defender.

Kinda sucks really..

[Midway]

On a security forum I saw that Defender's detection rate was around 46%. I am going to experiment and just use Norton for my malware detection needs (Znod, I think I read post of yours somewhere of doing something similar). AV's now are getting good at detecting malware on their own. Plus the fact that I am running as a Standard User should help even more. Here at work we use Symantec 10.x and since we upgraded from 9.x it seems like me and the SysAdmin don't have to go around and clean up workstations like we used to.