Windows Defender Offline Beta

[sujay]

1. Actually this Windows Defender stands for Windows Defender for Windows 8 version which has the same capability as Microsoft Security Essentials. It seems to be a renamed version of Microsoft System Sweeper.
2. It is for scanning boot-time.
3. You need to install it in a CD/DVD/USB.
4. You need to know the OS version (32bit/64bit) and have to download the appropriate version.

Homepage
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline

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[Raymond]

So it is sort of a rescue disk from Microsoft? By the way what is "scanning boot-time"?

[ted]

So it is sort of a rescue disk from Microsoft? By the way what is "scanning boot-time"?

I was wondering what that was maybe its to catch things like remove WAT

[Bearcat]

Thanks for the heads up Sujay. I created the live cd and ran a complete scan of my PC. It took about 14 minutes to scan 370,000 files, but didn't find any problems.

[sujay]

By the way what is "scanning boot-time"?

Might be a wrong choice of words. I got that name from Avast!

[BigGuy]

Thank you sujay. I am downloading the live cd right now.