Defender doesn’t throw itself in front of the truck, begging you not to open or reply to the mail. There’s no active email scanning, for example, and I get plenty of malicious emails: fake delivery scams, offers from Saudi princes, spoof Amazon emails.

It’s not a marketing prank, although you suspect there was a degree of sniggering in the Microsoft press office when this was released.ĭoes Microsoft Defender do its job? Well, it’s not the most proactive of security suites. Parents, for example, can open the Defender app on their phone and get a reassuring reminder that all of the family’s other computing devices are protected. Microsoft is positioning Defender as a security dashboard for all of your devices. It’s part of the company’s all-encompassing Microsoft 365 package, which includes the Office products and now Defender for PC, Mac, Android and even iOS. So now Microsoft Defender has landed on the Mac.

Defender for Mac scans for viruses, but not a lot else Barry Collins

Defender for endpoint mac