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Windows with its built-in Windows Defender and your Common Sense 2019 Computer Professional Edition is going to be enough nowadays.
Just to clarify, does Common Sense 2019 Pro come with an ad-blocker for protection against malvertising? I still run into a lot of people who think malvertising isn't a thing. It was worse back when flash adverts were common, but it's still really bad
The organization affiliated with FSB tracks their users. Wow, we're definitely entering big news epoch.
Kaspersky is not affiliated with FSB.
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Specifically, what is bad in pointing out windows is a security liability, and a low quality os generally speaking? Along with blunt user spying though ads inside a product you paid for? Something tells me i stepped into a vicious fandom of that os.
Perhaps your arguments would be more persuasive if you didn't immediately label anyone who disagrees with you a "fanboi".
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If you have an IT department, they will insist on AV software just to cover their ass. Noone there wants to be the one explaining to a clueless boss that they didn't use av software og something bad happened.
I don't mind having an antivirus on Windows but I despise having real-time file scanning when I have a computer with spinning rust. Node Package Manager install or yarn install creates thousands of tiny files and my understanding is that these "antivirus" software try to scan each file at the same time as npm wants to create them or in earlier days even as subversion was trying to do something. I imagine things are d…
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I will blow your mind when I will tell you to use a RamDisks for fastest run times wink wink
If you use a Samsung SATA SSD, just enable RAPID mode in the Samsung Magician program. The different with and without is huge . (Enabling RAPID mode basically creates an invisible RAM disk and uses it under the hood.)
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If you use a Samsung SATA SSD, just enable RAPID mode in the Samsung Magician program. The different with and without is huge . (Enabling RAPID mode basically creates an invisible RAM disk and uses it under the hood.)
is this different than just allocating swap space on the SSD?
Gotta say, it works amazingly well. I am getting almost PCI/NVMe speeds on my SATA III SSD.
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Reading sibling comments I have an idea for a startup. Make an AV, that does not really do anything, but can be used by thoughtful companies to "tick the box". Sell licenses and then do only the minimum required for compliance. It could be described that it uses Windows Defender service to provide the basis of AV solution.
An AV that alarmed on unpatched vulnerabilities might be better. Attackers will resignature their code to evade everything on VT, then spam the world to hit whoever hasn't patched. For ransomware anyway. If they're targeting you specifically they'll find out what you're running and customize against it.
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The majority of the Windows haters I come across seem to be the same.
I see windoze fanboys are having a leg-day today. Enjoy your ads and spying. Oh an the virii.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
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They should generate that certificate along with private key on your local machine, so it does not allow anyone else to intercept your traffic. Even seemingly harmless applications can do that. For example Blizzard Battle.net Launcher (used for all games) does that.
The issue is that you must check the external connection, i.e. in: User antivirus Site If not a hostile actor can inject themselves in a way which is completely invisible to the user: User antivirus Hostile Site Actually checking is tricky but many antivirus tools don't even try.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10727431
There's lots of 'Do we need Kaspersky' type questions in here already. The more pertinent question is whether AV is actually effective, or if stronger countermeasures like application whitelisting are needed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcgHkeZ1i4&list=PLqz80p7f6d...
You would need a document whitelist since many programs can be hijacked using buffer overflow attacks or outright support execution of arbritrary scripts.