April 24, 2006 - I initially posted a message about this topic on April 19,
2006. Since then I have taken the time to perform some additional tests to
understand the interaction between Windows Defender and the PCAUSA Rawether
NDIS protocol drivers.

After having taken a look at this I have certainly changed my opinion of
Defender. Contrary to my original thoughts, Defender provides very
reasonable notices to the user when system settings change. In fact, the
behavior of Defender on Windows XP is very similar to the new security
notices that are built in to Windows Vista.

There still are some issues that PCAUSA OEMs should consider. In particular,
the Defender notices describe the driver publisher as "Printing
Communications Assoc., Inc." and the product as "Rawether for Windows". It
is likely that your customers will not associate PCAUSA or Rawether with
your company or product.

If you are a PCAUSA OEM customer, then you should probably consider having a
private-labeled (OEM version) of Rawether instead of the stock PCAUSA
drivers. Yes, it will cost a little, but your customers will not get
confused.

I have updated the web page on this topic. It is at the URL:

http://www.rawether.net/support/KB04190601.htm

Regards,

Thomas F. Divine