I was wondering a couple of things. One is, which app will you continue to promote, Windows Defender or MS Security Essentials? It seems that defender was an anti-spyware tool and MSE was antivirus / spyware (or malware, I'm not sure). Do we need both on a PC or does one do both? Also, in a enterprise environment, is the Forefront security package a real antivirus,firewall, malware,spyware remover??? I also have an interesting setup that I'd like to know is supported or even would work. At work, I am able to map to the admin shares of the PCs and run several tools (i.e. SAV) to the remote PC to see if they have any viruses. While I haven't seen any come back with viruses, is this an effective way to remotely scan a PC or am I really wasting my time? While we have SAV as our standard antivirus, I know we need more tools to combat the horde of garbage that the users bring into our network. And trying to addon another security suite to combat specific threats with a real time scan mode might just be out of the picture unless management says otherwise. Thanks! -Karl

Hi, Thanks for posting in Technet. Here are the answers for your questions. “which app will you continue to promote, Windows Defender or MS Security Essentials? It seems that defender was an anti-spyware tool and MSE was antivirus / spyware (or malware, I'm not sure). Do we need both on a PC or does one do both?” You may refer the following thread for the answer of this question. Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msestart/thread/5309cb8d-02e1-40e8-974f-0dcedb9ab9fd “in a enterprise environment, is the Forefront security package a real antivirus,firewall, malware,spyware remover???” Yes. You can get more information from the following website. Microsoft Forefront Client Security Frequently Asked Questions “At work, I am able to map to the admin shares of the PCs and run several tools (i.e. SAV) to the remote PC to see if they have any viruses. While I haven't seen any come back with viruses, is this an effective way to remotely scan a PC or am I really wasting my time?”. No that is not an effective way. Connecting to the remote computer with Remote Desktop works in this scenario. Arthur Xie TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thanks for the answers. I will look into the links provided. As for my remote scanning question, I think I may not have been clear. I am mapping to the remote PC and running SAV locally on my PC to the mapped drive (i.e. their admin share). I am using the software on MY pc to scan the remote PC via the mapped drive. I am hoping that I can setup a VM box that has several tools on it to scan the PCs in my network as issues arise since SAV is the only approved installed AV. Thanks!

Hi, If you run the antivirus to scan the system drive of the remote computer, it can clear viruses that hide in the drive. However I do not think it will clear the viruses if they are in Registry, memory or hard drive cache. Therefore I do not recommend that you scan the remote computer in this way. Arthur Xie TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.