Microsoft Defender User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience34.0% of reviews
Neutral12.1% of reviews
Negative experience53.9% of reviews

~ Based on 529 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Microsoft Defender Safe?

Microsoft Defender: Security appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Microsoft Defender is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 20,698 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 20,698 App Store ratings for Microsoft Defender.

Is Microsoft Defender Legit?

Microsoft Defender: Security appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Microsoft Defender is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

States I’m Offline

Will turn off because it indicates I’m offline. Currently staying I need to connect to the Internet and even though I’m online it won’t work.

Something went wrong

Keep getting the something went wrong. Can’t show notifications and history since the update yesterday. Happens on my iPad and iPhone

Update

I could not get the dark web thing to work. But I then deleted the app, and reinstalled. For some reason it not works.
It’s proving to be one of the more useful apps. And it has a VPN I think.

got alert just now

out unable to open alerts keep saying “try again” on my iPhone and ipad

Defender

MSD provides great security for all devices!

Perfect Shield

iLevel intelligence, outstanding and interesting tool.

Defender is not working

Receiving a “oh something went wrong issue” Dendender will not work until it’s resolved. Please review!

好用删不掉

如题

Location Privacy concern

The app claims it can see, “names of Wi-Fi networks (SSIDs) near you and their associated MAC addresses.” If this is true, this app can be used to locate and track any user.

Me defender

Não permite habitação de VPN no celular iPhone 17e

Wer braucht so etwas...???

Es ist wieder einmal ein Beleg dafür, dass Microsoft bestenfalls alles von allen erfahren will! Systemübergreifend für alle Betriebssysteme greift der Konzern auf Daten zu, die man eben freiwillig preisgibt!
Mal ehrlich: iOS- und iPadOS-Systeme etc. brauchen so etwas nicht! Und im Windows-System werkelt der Defender ohnehin vor sich hin und macht einen relativ guten Job! Was das hier also soll, erschließt sich mir nicht? Solch eine App hat nicht einmal unsere Rechtsanwaltskanzlei installiert..
Warum auch...?!
Und die sollte doch besonders geschützt sein!!! Aber nicht mit einer App wie dieser!!!
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Réactivation

Trop souvent désactivé pas normal

My hero

Defender 🤠

Works, but has Limits & Annoyances

Microsoft Defender “just works” apparently, but has few details of its findings. Having used this family of defense tools for years on Windows, I expect nothing less—and it seems to deliver!

But the incessant nagging to purchase identity insurance or sign up for Credit Monitoring (even though I already have that through other means) gets old rather quickly! Each new “update” of the app via the App Store causes the user to march through “suggestions” all over again—or put up with the indicator on the app (which may cause the user to miss actual alerts of successful protection from malicious code). Come on, Microsoft, give us an option to decline once & for all the repetitive push to sell identity insurance & protection services!
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卡死了!

Paul David Jackins MD

I have worked at Ivy League hospitals from Baltimore, to New York City. A victim of a car accident, seven years ago has damaged my brain. So I appreciate MS Defender helping to protect me from the scammers and identity thieves online out there.

ACCOUNTS

Have not been in my account in a long time . (YEARS) Please help. I have a sixth grade education. Don’t need all the passwords. Don’t even know what to do. Thank you!

Bug report

Defender continuously notifies me that my device is not protected. However, it is. I also use Malwarebytes for iOS security. It is on and active. That means my device IS protected. Please address this bug by scanning for other malware apps running and only show the ‘ not protected’ alert if indeed my device is not protected.
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VPN always breaks

More often than not the VPN causes issues. Just now I was unable to even open the app because the VPN stopped working. Then, the app just keeps nagging me to turn it back on and internet stops working again. I love MS but this is border line spam

fb comments were tracked by trolls

the app turns off once I made comments combatting trolls on fb