Most Windows PCs vulnerable to remote attack due to dud Windows Defender

Hi gr8auntteffie
 
Hope that you are well?
 
I would say that all of this has nothing to do with whether you are technical or not.
 
If a vulnerability as been idenitfied as to how WIndows Defender, etc., operate then one is only potentially vulnerable if one is running Windows Defender, etc...it not then no issue.
 
If however you do run Windows Defender, etc., then there is a possibility that you could be compromised...but it would require a malicious email, fo a specific type, to be sent to you...so question is then how likely are all of those things likely to happen to you...not very IMHO.
 
And if you allow Windows Update to do its job automatically, which it sounds like you do, then you should get any associated patch as soon as it can come to you, i.e., once Microsoft have accepted the issue & produced a fix for it..
 
So there is really no more that you can do at presnt...just like the rest of us.
 
Regards, Baldrick

Hi gr8auntteffie
 
I agree with the sentiment you have expressed about these miscreants, and have said so openly many a time here and elsewhere.
 
Just a small thought; why do a daily manual check when you can set up Windows Update to check automatically, and also if you want, to update automatically?
 
Regards, Baldrick

Good afternoon gr8auntteffie
 
Hope that you are well?
 
What you have referred to is a moot point with differing views as to how to proceed. I used to be of the school of thought that mirrors your approach but recently have reverted to having MS download & install updtes automatically. Why? Because the scene is a fast moving one and it can only take a day now for something flagged as & issue and patched to be exploited by the miscreants out there.
 
So my view is that adding a delay to an MS update by making a manual decision as to if & when to install adds another layer of risk which is greater than a bad MS Update (there have been those in the past but to be homest not many) and if one has at a minimum created System Restore Points regulalry/better still backed up ones system then the risk is even smaller as one can revert to a point prior to the 'bad' update.
 
Just my view on the subject and there is no real 'right' way to go and the only 'wrong' way is to not allow Windows Updates (which in WIndows 10 is not possible...just deferment).
 
I cannot comment on the latter point about your cell as I suspect that you are an Android user, and as I use Windows Phone (same policy as Windows Updates on a PC) I have no experience of the options you might have, other than to say that Android is a super insecure mobile OS and therefore patch ASAP would be my motto if I was unfortunate enough to use it. ;)
 
Hope that helps?
 
Regards, Baldrick

You are most welcome, gr8auntteffie, as per always. :D
 
Regards, Baldrick