# Why does Windows Defender have to suck so bad?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-windows-defender-have-to-suck-so-bad/607595>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 28, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-windows-defender-have-to-suck-so-bad/607595 "2011-12-28T03:28:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-windows-defender-have-to-suck-so-bad/607595/61 "2011-12-29T15:16:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Try2B Comprehensive]  
What, I did. An ipad anyway, for my gf for xmas. It booted up pretty quick out of the box.

It is pretty cool. I get to keep my buggin’ device too.  
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Did you jailbreak it or are you running it straight up? Just curious.

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> But I did pit them. I called them ‘malicious morons’. That’s not very nice. xtisme was being irksome, but all I called him was ‘silly pants’.

Irksome is my middle name. 😉

-XT

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-windows-defender-have-to-suck-so-bad/607595/62 "2011-12-29T17:00:46Z")

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> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#):
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> I (apparently foolishly) expected Windows7 to take care of itself.

Ah, gotcha. I thought you were complaining about having to make the payments to the writers of the anti-virus software.

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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-windows-defender-have-to-suck-so-bad/607595/63 "2011-12-31T02:58:25Z")

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> [@xtisme](#):
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> Did you jailbreak it or are you running it straight up? Just curious.

I don’t know what ‘jailbreak it’ means, and it is my gf running it, so probably straight up.

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