Windows Defender & MSE -- check/update every 2 hrs

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Ortho_Fan
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Windows Defender & MSE -- check/update every 2 hrs

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Over the year's I've gotten into the habit of manually updating Microsoft Security Essentials' definitions three or four times per-day. (By default, it always checked and updated once every day.) Over the past few days, I've noted several definition updates I didn't remember downloading. Today, after some extensive Googling, I spotted this:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r310669 ... every-2hrs

Of course, god forbid Microsoft would have issued a statement about this to alleviate the fears of people like me who are prone to panic over every little thing... 8-[

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TheVisitor
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Re: Windows Defender & MSE -- check/update every 2 hrs

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Seeing the same on win10 with Defender, getting updates every two hours also since a couple days ago, actually 3 days ago ti started.
Ortho_Fan
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Re: Windows Defender & MSE -- check/update every 2 hrs

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As a follow-up, MSE no longer auto-updates multiple times per day. From what I can tell, it stopped doing after the last Patch Tuesday (Nov. 8th) updates.

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