[dbaust] Re: Meet Windows Defender Security Center, your PC's safety belt in the Creators Update

  • From: "Peter M Risby" <pmminter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 15:29:17 +1000

Hi Peter Tarrant

Yes! My computers Get Windows Defender and Windows Security Center and Windows repairs Center a very best Free cost.

My Computers Wineos 10 1603 ver Before not yet upgrade 17xx ver mabye next July 2017 Windows 10x

Goodbye.
Peter Risby.

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From: "Peter Tarrant" <tarrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 2:54 PM
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Subject: [dbaust] Meet Windows Defender Security Center, your PC's safety belt in the Creators Update

Meet Windows Defender Security Center, your PC's safety belt in the Creators
Update

The Creators Update puts antivirus, firewall, and other security features
all in one place.

Ian Paul By Ian Paul

Contributor, PCWorld |
May 1, 2017 3:00 AM PT

Windows 10 Privacy in the Creators Update

Windows Defender gets organized in the Creators Update, bringing formerly
scattered features under one roof. See how it's changed here.

Here's what the Windows Defender Security Center will look like in
Windows...

Microsoft made some much needed changes to Windows Defender with the
Creators Update. The built-in anti-virus app is renamed the Windows Defender
Security Center, and as that name suggests, it's a more fleshed-out security
suite.



It's not that Windows Defender has any new features. What Microsoft has done
for the most part is bring together a number of security settings in Windows
10 that were scattered throughout the system.


Windows Defender pre-Creators Update.



The old Defender was a very bare-bones utility. The Home tab showed a
confirmation that it was active, whether virus and spyware definitions were
up-to-date, and when the last scan was.

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There were also tabs to manually retrieve updates to spyware definitions and
to view your Defender history. Other than that there was a link to access
Defender's options in the Settings app, as well as a Help menu.

That was it.

The landing page of the new Windows Defender Security Center is clearly a
different beast. Information about your latest scan and spyware definitions
are still there, but that's just the beginning.

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Windows Defender Security Center shows all its categories on the main
screen, as well as in a lefthand menu.


Instead of three tabs at the top, the new Defender has an icon-based menu on
the left side. Similar to other built-in apps for Windows 10, the menu only
shows icons, and clicking the three-line menu icon expands to display the
title for each icon.

You don't really need that menu, however, as each item is also displayed in
the main window complete with icon, explanation, and current status.

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Here's a quick tour of the new Security Center.



Virus & threat protection

Clicking on the top menu item lets you manage the basic spyware and virus
capabilities of Defender. Here you'll see your scan history, the ability to
run a quick or more advanced scan, change your threat and protection
settings, and update your anti-virus definitions.




Device performance & health

The second section includes a Health Report that details your most recent
scan, and (rather unbelievably) the option to reinstall Windows. Microsoft
has once again moved and renamed its feature for reinstalling Windows. For
the Anniversary Update, the option was called "Reset this PC" and was in the
Update & Recovery section of the Settings app. (You can still get to this
option from the old location, but it takes you to Windows Defender Security
Center.)

Now it's accessible from Windows Defender under the name Fresh start. Click
Additional info in this section to open a second screen. From here, click
Get started to rese-er...give your PC a fresh start.



Firewall & network protection

The Windows Defender Security Center is now the starting place for the
Windows Firewall. At the moment, there aren't many settings here. Instead,
all you see is the current status of the firewall. Clicking the links at the
bottom of this window leads to either the Control Panel or the Settings app,
with the exception of Firewall notifications settings. We can only assume
that in the future Microsoft will move more firewall settings into Defender.


App & browser control

Windows' SmartScreen controls are a helpful feature for novice and
intermediate users. SmartScreen scans incoming files and apps for suspicious
behavior.

The generic Windows SmartScreen used to be in the Control Panel, while the
Edge and Store
SmartScreens were in the Settings app. All the SmartScreen incarnations are
now in the Defender Security Center.



Family options

The last section includes a link to various parental controls including the
ability to limit screen time for your children, Windows' activity reports
for children, and so on.

Below the parental controls there's a link to manage all the various Windows
10 devices for your family members.

The family options are the least interesting part of Defender, because this
screen doesn't actually house any settings. Clicking any of the links here
takes you to Microsoft's site, where all family information is managed as
part of your Microsoft account.

There's a lot more to Windows Defender than in previous iterations of
Windows 10 and no doubt this security suite will become even more capable in
the future.

This story, "Meet Windows Defender Security Center, your PC's safety belt in
the Creators Update" was originally published by PCWorld.



Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech
subject he didn't like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware,
video and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he's
not covering the news he's working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning
his eGPU setup.


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