Microsoft Security Essentials/Windows Defender on Win8+ will now detect the Ask Toolbar and other to

[Mors]

[QUOTE=pixskull;47941274]How you posting from Windows 98?[/QUOTE]

He probably changed his useragent string.

[Silentfood]

[QUOTE=pixskull;47941274]How you posting from Windows 98?[/QUOTE]

i followed a vaporwave tutorial on burning 98 to a twelve floppies

[Curls]

[QUOTE=TheJoker;47939114]What even uses Java now a days besides Minecraft?[/QUOTE]

Minecraft uses a standalone java so you don't even need java installed to use it

there's like, no point in even having the shit installed

[draugur]

[QUOTE=pixskull;47941274]How you posting from Windows 98?[/QUOTE]

Very Carefully.

[Levelog]

[QUOTE=J!NX;47941324]Minecraft uses a standalone java so you don't even need java installed to use it

there's like, no point in even having the shit installed[/QUOTE]

Except for like, many professional applications.

[Loogaroo]

[QUOTE=Lolkork;47938965]Microsoft SE is still crap though.[/QUOTE]

Look at all those boxes and disagrees

...despite the fact that MSE has been bottom of the barrel shit for the past 2 years.

[Noth]

[QUOTE=waxrock;47942879]...despite the fact that MSE has been bottom of the barrel shit for the past 2 years.[/QUOTE]

Got anything to back that statement up?

[Jaguar]

[QUOTE=Levelog;47942858]Except for like, many professional applications.[/QUOTE]

But not any personal professional applications

[Loogaroo]

[QUOTE=Noth;47943283]Got anything to back that statement up?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Rocket;47943292]Things MSE does:
* Actually detects threats.
* Does not install adware or spyware.
* Is free.

Bottom of the barrel of shit indeed.[/QUOTE]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/oeYrpRO.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/yurLLoa.png[/img]

And you can do some legwork of your own and look up any article about MSE within the past 2-3 years.

[Gloriam]

Nothing protects you completely, so I'd rather pick the protection that doesn't bother me all the time with updates and false positives.

[Loogaroo]

Then pick an AV with low false positives and turn off notifications. That "feature" isn't exclusive to MSE.