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Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It

posted by n1 on Thursday June 22 2017, @06:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the windows-10-is-the-virus dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility – not competitive – issues.

Redmond is currently being sued by security house Kaspersky Lab in the EU, Germany and Russia over alleged anti-competitive behavior because it bundles the Windows Defender security suite into its latest operating system. Kaspersky (and others) claim Microsoft is up to its Internet Explorer shenanigans again, but that's not so, said the operating system giant.

"Microsoft's application compatibility teams found that roughly 95 per cent of Windows 10 PCs had an antivirus application installed that was already compatible with Windows 10 Creators Update," said Rob Lefferts, director of security in the Windows and Devices group.

Source: The Register
Archive article: Archive.org

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  • (Score: 2) by Soylentbob on Thursday June 22 2017, @11:47AM (1 child)

    by Soylentbob (6519) on Thursday June 22 2017, @11:47AM (#529468)

    Not really :-) Basically Windows broke so many times, for so many reasons and with so many casualties in my experience that a complete list is not practical. Actually, a shorter list should have been sufficient to make my point, or a link to some external summary. I don't have the time to search for a good one, but here [bing.com] should be some hidden gems.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 22 2017, @12:15PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 22 2017, @12:15PM (#529473) Journal

    After a lot if "Windows 10 broke my PC" links, in the "related searches for Windows broke my", there this pearl: "tenant broke window". Yeah, right, related indeed.

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