Microsoft Defender

Name: Microsoft Defender
Rating: 1.59475 (343 reviews)

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Microsoft Defender

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User Reviews for Microsoft Defender

READ: Battery Usage and link scans and network usage

I’ve seen a significant amount of reviews complaining about “High battery usage” and “5k links?? I only used one app!” iOS tracks “battery usage” based on network activity, and because this acts as a VPN, yes, it will show high battery usage, but in reality it’s not. Let’s say Facebook used 10% battery, and Instagram used 15% battery, after installing this app, you’d see iOS report that this app used 25% of your battery. I’m sure you get the idea now. You can validate this information by using any VPN client on your phone. Link scans: This is all traffic from your phone: background app refreshes, apps can send request to hundreds of separate links. That’s why you see so many link scans.Network usage: again, because all apps route their data into this app, your data usage will be pointed to this app aswell. If you used 5GB on Facebook, it would show as 5GB under this app.

Appledudething, Nov 18, 2021

You killed “Calendar” app

I’m not sure what you’re doing every time I pull up the Apple calendar app but you’ve destroyed it’s ability to render correctly. Must you recheck all the link in calendar every time I open it (I think this is what is happening). I live in the calendar app with managing 5+ different calendars between a busy work life, teenagers, service work and a marriage. Please figure this out for better functionality. If you’re going to sell companies on that they need to force employees to put this on personal devices then stop ruining their personal device experience.

Bigger Fam!, Nov 05, 2021

Poor Quality App

If there is an option to give negative ratings, I would have given it to this app. Day 1 I install this and is the biggest mistake I did that day. This application should not break other applications like messages, because now I don’t get new message notifications after installing this. I’m now waiting for a new iPhone SE release to decamp all my Microsoft applications there as a dedicated work phone so that it can no longer ruin my main phone

BobLu1, Feb 02, 2022

Would give 0 star if I can

The corporate required us to install this App post Oct,25th otherwise we wouldn’t be able to get access to the corporate resource. 7 days since I’ve installed this App, it has consumed 7GB of my cellular data, 13% of battery in the background while the only two other Apps that have been using more battery are IMs that I’ve been frequently using throughout the week. Uninstalling it now. I’d rather not checkout any resources from my phone and only use corporate PC instead. Thanks Microsoft! Kudos to enforcing our work life balance!

camphorliage, Nov 01, 2021

Huge battery drain for no perceptible value

This app used 45% of the battery on my iPhone 13 pro max today. This isn’t uncommon. On a good day it uses 20% of the battery.It also breaks basic functionality in some apps. For example the My Spectrum app won’t even finish loading on my phone when Defender is installed and running. On the dashboard in this app all it ever says is that it’s “scanned” 5K+ links in the last 24 hours? It doesn’t matter if I’ve been using my phone heavily, or barely at all. What “links” does this thing think it’s scanning? Where does it find them? What is it “scanning” them for? I navigated to a handful of known phishing sites just to see what this app would do. It didn’t seem to do anything as far as I could tell.What value does this provide me, or my company? How is it worth nearly half my battery, and breaking basic functionality in 4 other apps I use?

Forbes Higman, Nov 14, 2021

Huge battery and data drain.

First the good news is that it runs “out of sight, out of mind”, which I guess is good. The bad news is that when I look at my device stats this app uses about 50-75% of my battery every day and used about 15GB of data for the month. I’ll be honest, I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to do but I know it’s physically costing me money since I now have to charge my phone 2x per day.

Infinityball, Jan 01, 2022

Give us a work phone please

I kept putting it off installing it until I needed to dial in for an important meeting and i got kicked out saying I havent installed this app. Really? After installing it told me it scanned 2k links, what links, I only used outlook and teams to work for the past few hours. Just get employee a work phone. I would rather carry two phones around other than have all these company apps stored on my phone to monitor everything.

Rachel shao, Nov 12, 2021

No issues except the same stuff you have with any endpoint protection product

My battery usage for this app is 15% normally.Some website loading issues.Must disable to use OpenVPN.Overall, it’s the normal level of EPP annoyance I would expect.

TexasPropWash, Jan 10, 2022

Absolutely Terrible!!!

This App Drained My Battery Life, Got 10 Annoying “Harmful Site” Screens When Opening A 100% Safe Link, Destroyed Other Apps, & Breaking My Wi-Fi Network! This App Is Getting More Worse Than I Think It Was, This Broke 3 Applications Like Apple Maps, Minecraft, & Apple Contacts. Also, I’m Using A 7th Gen iPad & It Displayed The Wrong Device. It’s Named “This iPhone”, But I’m Using My iPad Right Now, You Need To Fix This Kind Of Unfixed Causes That I’ve Experiencing. This App Is Terrible & I Need To Uninstall This App Before My Device Is Getting Unstable Now.

This Super Angry iMovie User, Mar 31, 2022

very challenging to switch phones

Between this app, Authenticator, and the comp portal app, they all work terribly together and have wasted hours of my time trying to set up a new phone this week. I keep deleting and starting over and whether it’s comp portal saying I don’t have this app (defender) when I already do, or trying to get me to use the auth app when it’s not working yet, the whole thing has been a nightmare. at this point I’m probably just not going to access work things on my phone, period.

wowowowowowwowoowow, Dec 04, 2021

Description

Microsoft Defender is a unified online security app for your work and personal life. Microsoft Defender for individuals provides online security for your personal life. For work, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helps organizations around the world stay more secure.

Sign-in with your personal account[1] to access features for Microsoft Defender for individuals. Sign-in with your work[2] account to access to features for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Microsoft Defender for individuals Seamlessly protect your data and devices with Microsoft Defender.[1] You and your family can easily manage your online security in one app with notifications, and recommendations to help you stay safer online. Use one app for your online security A centralized view to manage and monitor your antivirus protections across your devices See your and your family’s devices in one place Easily add or remove devices Safeguard your data and devices Anti-phishing protection for you and your family Continuously scans for harmful links before you click on them to help protect you from web sites that might be harmful Stay ahead of hackers and scammers Stay up to date about changes to your security status with real-time alerts Get recommended actions to help keep your data and devices secure [1] If you are an individual, please login with your personal Microsoft account. Microsoft Defender for individuals requires a Microsoft 365 Family or Personal subscription. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an industry-leading, cloud-powered endpoint security solution that helps to secure against ransomware, file-less malware, and other sophisticated attacks across platforms. Our comprehensive solution helps to rapidly stop attacks, scale your security resources, and evolve your defenses. Rapidly stop threats Gain the upper hand against sophisticated threats like ransomware, fileless attacks, and nation state threats. Scale your security Put time back in the hands of defenders to prioritize risks and elevate your security posture. Evolve your defenses Advance beyond endpoint silos and mature your security based on a foundation for XDR and Zero Trust. [2] If you are a member of a business or organization, you need to login with your company email when you install Microsoft Defender on your devices. Commercial and business features of this app require a Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P1, P2, Microsoft 365 Defender for Business license, or a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription. If you are not sure about your company’s license or subscription, contact your IT department.