{"id":247183,"date":"2018-02-01T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=247183"},"modified":"2018-02-01T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:51:19","slug":"windows-defender-will-remove-misleading-cleaner-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/247183-windows-defender-will-remove-misleading-cleaner-programs.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Defender will remove misleading cleaner programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoftsecure\/2018\/01\/30\/protecting-customers-from-being-intimidated-into-making-an-unnecessary-purchase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>is updating<\/strong><\/a> its Windows Defender antivirus software to protect users against unwanted software.<\/p>\n<p>Defender&#8217;s evaluation criteria is being updated to protect users against coercive or misleading &#8220;cleaner&#8221; programs, which prompt users for payments to clean up their storage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been an increase in free versions of programs that purport to scan computers for various errors, and then use alarming, coercive messages to scare customers into buying a premium version of the same program,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the future, programs that display coercive messaging will be classified as unwanted software, detected, and removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new criteria will be implemented on 1 March 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/240888-windows-10-coming-to-qualcomms-always-connected-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 coming to Qualcomm\u2019s Always Connected PC<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is updating its Windows Defender antivirus software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":206794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[951,123,11371,43062],"class_list":["post-247183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-anti-virus","tag-microsoft","tag-protection","tag-windows-defender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247219,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247183\/revisions\/247219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}