Windows 10 preview toughens up security with stronger vetting of antivirus apps

  • 17 May 2018
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17th May, 2018, By Darren Allan
 

New build brings Windows Defender more into play, too…

 
Microsoft has unleashed another Windows 10 preview build, with only relatively minor changes, but nonetheless there’s an interesting move on the security front.
 
Build 17672 (for Redstone 5, the update due later this year) has been made available to those testers in the ‘skip ahead’ program and fast ring, and it contains a major change when it comes to how Windows 10 deals with third-party antivirus software (from the likes of Bitdefender or Kaspersky, to cite a couple of big-name examples).
 
Going forward, the Windows Security Center will require any antivirus app to run as a protected process for it to be shown in the UI of the Center. Furthermore, as well as not being displayed in the Center, these apps will also have Windows Defender Antivirus enabled alongside them.
 
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