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The best anti malware on any version of windows has always been to make your default account you use everyday a non admin account. You also need to create a separate account (can just be a local account) that is a full administrator. Make sure you use a different password. Anytime you need to install something or run powershell/CMD as admin it will popup and ask for the separate login of the admin account. This is ba…
Or you know... just use Linux
The best anti malware on any version of windows has always been to make your default account you use everyday a non admin account. You also need to create a separate account (can just be a local account) that is a full administrator. Make sure you use a different password. Anytime you need to install something or run powershell/CMD as admin it will popup and ask for the separate login of the admin account. This is ba…
It sounds like you just described what User Account Control (UAC) has been doing since Windows Vista (2006).
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Every couple of years I give daily driving Linux a try. I still find that old joke about "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing" to be quite apt.
Do you mind elaborating a bit on what went wrong? Like, were you installing on a recent MacBook, or something else not well supported? In my experience, installing and running a popular distro is absolute cake. Easier than Windows, even, since you aren’t forced to create cloud accounts and answer a million privacy questions; you basically install then boot right into your new desktop.
I find most things fine in Linux and I'm fairly comfortable with the terminal. However it's the 10% or so of things that are very cumbersome in Linux but instant in Windows/Mac that drive me away.
Example: There is no Google Drive client for Linux. Spend an hour dorking around in rclone and get it set up and working with bidirectional sync. The token still expires weekly and needs to be renewed. Yeah, I get a potential solution is "don't use Google Drive" but the little projects to get my current workflow functioning on Linux, or change my workflow to fit Linux's constraints, end up adding up into a bunch of wasted time.
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Every couple of years I give daily driving Linux a try. I still find that old joke about "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing" to be quite apt.
Every few years someone forces me to use Windows and I find that my data is apparently worth nothing since it being one giant anti-pattern wastes my time.
That ended up being the last straw in a long line of complaints with data privacy and things being forced on me in Windows. Somehow that stupid Bing toolbar would constantly re-enable itself and re-appear on my desktop after every update despite being disabled everywhere I could find a setting for...
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Do you mind elaborating a bit on what went wrong? Like, were you installing on a recent MacBook, or something else not well supported? In my experience, installing and running a popular distro is absolute cake. Easier than Windows, even, since you aren’t forced to create cloud accounts and answer a million privacy questions; you basically install then boot right into your new desktop.
Used it on various devices. A Dell laptop (with power switching between dedicated and iGPU, what a nightmare that was for Linux display drivers), a desktop I built myself, a Raspberry Pi running RPi OS. I find most things fine in Linux and I'm fairly comfortable with the terminal. However it's the 10% or so of things that are very cumbersome in Linux but instant in Windows/Mac that drive me away. Example: There is no…
What? Google accounts have been a thing in Gnome for years. You have Google Drive access right in Nautilus.
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It sounds like you just described what User Account Control (UAC) has been doing since Windows Vista (2006).
There are UAC bypasses. Microsoft has repeatedly stated that UAC isn't actually a security boundary. It's better to run a daily driver account as a limited user and only elevate when you overtly need it. (It's even better to use a separate login, as opposed to "Run As...)
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Or you know... just use Linux
Every couple of years I give daily driving Linux a try. I still find that old joke about "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing" to be quite apt.
Much less than I needed to back when I mainly used Windows.
Sure, there's a learning curve. But Windows has a learning curve too, you just already climbed that hill.
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Used it on various devices. A Dell laptop (with power switching between dedicated and iGPU, what a nightmare that was for Linux display drivers), a desktop I built myself, a Raspberry Pi running RPi OS. I find most things fine in Linux and I'm fairly comfortable with the terminal. However it's the 10% or so of things that are very cumbersome in Linux but instant in Windows/Mac that drive me away. Example: There is no…
>There is no Google Drive client for Linux What? Google accounts have been a thing in Gnome for years. You have Google Drive access right in Nautilus.
I would find the why more interesting. Is there a common library virtually all ransomware uses? Are virtually all ransomware copy pastes of each other? Is there a popular forum post detailing the trick?