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- Microsoft Malware Removal Starter KitJuly 11 2007
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Yesterday evening, the antimalware team shipped a new tool which should be helpful to small and medium sized orgs. This guide is designed for IT professionals (who may be wearing many hats) in the small business setting. The kit provides recommendations and tools to assist in removing problematic malware from your environment.
You can find this tool at the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/disasterrecovery/malware/default.mspxIf you have suggestions about this tool, send us e-mail to secwish@microsoft.com
While you are at it, feel free to also visit the Malware Protection Center Portal at the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portalI hope to make more posts as new technology is released to help our customers get and stay secure.
-steve
- Deploying Defender Definitions with WSUSJuly 17 2006
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One of the cool things about Windows Defender is that we still give system administrators the ability to deploy definition updates by using WSUS. I have just written a KB article on setting up the WSUS server to download and deploy Defender definitions.
You can find this KB at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919772
As always, please feel free to comment on the ways we can make Windows Defender better for you all!
-steve
- Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware is now……”Windows Defender”November 4 2005
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Over the last few months we have been working hard on creating the next version of the Microsoft anti-spyware technology. Today, we are announcing the new name for this technology… Microsoft Windows Defender. Does this mean a lot is changing?? Well... YES – and all for the better!! As part of our development process, we have been lurking in the newsgroups, listening and talking to customers to hear how we can make this release better.
It is going to be a part of VISTA!
The biggest announcement we are making is that Windows Defender will be a part of Vista when it releases. You will be able to run another spyware product instead of Windows Defender if you would like. Although I may shed a small tear, you will be able to disable or turn off Windows Defender and install whichever 3rd party anti-spyware application you would like. The really cool thing is that the Windows Security Center in Vista will be redesigned to detect if an Anti-Spyware application such as Windows Defender is running and operating normally.
New Signature Update Mechanism.
That’s great and all, but what about some technical info about Windows Defender? Well I have something for you folks as well…Instead of writing our own update engine for this technology, we have teamed up with Windows Update to deliver signatures to you through Automatic Updates. This is an excellent way of us utilizing an existing Microsoft technology to deliver spyware signature updates to - anti-malware engineering team blog released todayNovember 1 2005
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If you read my blog off and on (more off recently), you may be interested in the team blog located at the following location:
http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware
Jason Garms has posted the first intro to this blog http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/archive/2005/11/01/413466.aspx, and these blogs will be a good place to check in with the developers and program managers of some of the security products here at Microsoft.
-steve
- Microsoft Client Protection AnnouncementOctober 6 2005
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Today we are announcing the new product line to help protect business systems against virus, spyware and rootkits. This new product line is called "Microsoft Client Protection." More information can be found at the following links:
Q&A With Mike Nash
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/oct05/10-06ClientProtection.mspxSteve Balmer's Security Strategy
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/oct05/10-06SecuritySpeechPR.mspx