A news report has been released which says that Windows 2000 is no longer supported by Microsoft’s anti-spyware program called Windows Defender.

Microsoft has released a statement which says “Windows Defender no longer supports Windows 2000 as [Windows 2000] went out of mainstream support in June 2005.”

Their latest operating system, Vista, already has a preloaded version of Windows Defender. Both Windows 98 and Windows ME were never supported by Windows Defender.

Windows 2000 users were told to upgrade to the last supported version of the program.