Monday, October 29, 2018

Good News for windows 10 users - Microsoft has built Windows Defender to run in a sandboxed environment.


With Windows Defender running in a restrictive process execution environment, attackers who break in are stuck inside the isolated environment and can't affect the rest of the system.

The feature is now available to Windows Insiders to test in upcoming versions of Windows 10. If you are not in the program and can't wait for Microsoft to release it in full, you can force-enable Windows Defender to run in a sandbox on Windows 10 version 1703 and later.

Windows Defender runs with high privileges to scan systems for malicious content; because of this, it's already a prime target for cyberattacks. If someone successfully exploits a bug in Windows Defender, an entire system can be taken over.



https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/windows-defender-first-full-antivirus-tool-to-run-in-a-sandbox/d/d-id/1333141

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