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Windows Defender will strap pushy scareware to its ass-kicker machine

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: soon going to be nuked

>"evidence eliminator"

The early free versions actually did what it said on the tin. The problems arose later once the authorities had decided it was only used by people who had something to hide...

To some extent the same has happened with registry cleaners, uninstallers, file/disk recovery utilities and other PC cleanup utilities (especially those that claim to clean up after malware); the more they have been marginalised, the more pushy the advertising and harder it is to determine which are the good one's and which are to be avoided.

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