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Is Defender good against scriptors or malicious pdf and word files?
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<blockquote data-quote="monkeylove" data-source="post: 1068330" data-attributes="member: 19756"><p>Actually, the OP was asking if Defender is good enough. It appears that it's not, so the default advice is to get something better.</p><p></p><p>Why would using VT be unreasonable, as pointed out earlier? Because people tend not to do things manually, especially if they're in a hurry. That's why a better option is a real-time program that can automatically upload the file to VT for checking.</p><p></p><p>How about using a VM? It's similar: consider security programs that sandbox by default instead of the user having to do things manually and run files in VMs.</p><p></p><p>How about hex editors? I think the security program, if not sites like VT, should handle analysis as well.</p><p></p><p>In short, the gist is that people will have to learn how to do this or that or do things manually, but that's not easy if they have many other things to do or forget to do things manually because they're rushing to meet a deadline, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="monkeylove, post: 1068330, member: 19756"] Actually, the OP was asking if Defender is good enough. It appears that it's not, so the default advice is to get something better. Why would using VT be unreasonable, as pointed out earlier? Because people tend not to do things manually, especially if they're in a hurry. That's why a better option is a real-time program that can automatically upload the file to VT for checking. How about using a VM? It's similar: consider security programs that sandbox by default instead of the user having to do things manually and run files in VMs. How about hex editors? I think the security program, if not sites like VT, should handle analysis as well. In short, the gist is that people will have to learn how to do this or that or do things manually, but that's not easy if they have many other things to do or forget to do things manually because they're rushing to meet a deadline, etc. [/QUOTE]
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