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Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)
Microsoft exposed their users to a lot of risks when they released Windows Defender without a sandbox. This surprised me. Sandboxing is one of the most effective security-hardening techniques. Why …
Windows Defender’s unencumbered access to its host machine and wide-scale acceptance of hazardous file formats make it an ideal target for malicious hackers. During the past 13 years Microsoft has developed a great security engineering organization, advanced fuzzing and program testing, and sandboxed critical parts of Internet Explorer. Rather than taking Project Zero’s approach to the problem by continually pointing out the symptoms of this inherent flaw, let’s bring Windows Defender back to the future.
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