By now you've probably heard that Microsoft has decided to christen its anti-spyware utility Windows Defender. I'm
OK with the name - it pretty accurately describes what the product does after all. In a post from the
Anti-Malware Engineering Team, it's
revealed that Windows Defender will be integrated into Windows Vista. No big surprise there. What is reassuring,
however, is the following statement:
"In addition to the work that my team's been doing to develop this for Windows Vista over the past many months, it
will also be available to existing Windows XP users, replacing the current Windows AntiSpyware technology we've been
shipping in beta since January. More details on that in a future post. If you're not using our current
Windows AntiSpyware beta, please give that a try!"
