Fernando Gregoire Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Hi, When I go to the Security\Antivirus page on AIDA64, information of Known Viruses is not returned for Windows Defender on Windows 8.1. I am running another antivirus product and all its information is retrieved, but I would like to see virus database quality of WD on Windows 8.1 (the same as MSE for Vista/7) in comparison. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Please note that not all anti-virus software are capable of providing the known virus count to 3rd party applications like AIDA64. Approx. half of the anti-virus software that AIDA64 recognizes do not provide that information Regards, Fiery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Gregoire Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Thank you for your reply. Thinking on that, it is logic that AV vendors don't want to provide this information, since it could be used by competitors or even by rogue antivirus software. Probably, if AV companies are interested in showing that data, usually could provide this information in a proprietary UI with no APIs for interaction with other programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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