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Ask HN: What crapware does your company install on your work computer?
The security team in my org would like to install digitalguardian (https://digitalguardian.com/) or crowdstrike agent (https://www.crowdstrike.com/) on _all_ computers because reasons.
Initial experiences have not been very positive with many issues being reported including:
* rapid burnout of battery life
* random errors affecting fairly mundane io operations (e.g. git operations taking minutes, failure to compile apps etc.)
What has your experience been with these tools?
- kuharich 7y agoDunno about the above. I work for a BigCo. They decided to install Jamf on my development machine, my MacBook Pro. Makes me want to Jamf this crapware where the sun don't shine!
- garydarobot 7y agoMc Afee Antivirus (not sure how to spell it). Everyday I start my apache server and my PC is frozen. I ask the sysadmin and he says antivirus scan is running in the bg. LOL.
- Chyzwar 7y agoThese tools often inject themself between syscalls (at least in Windows), they might not take many resources by themself but they slow down everything. I once worked in a bank where git status took 5s on 16 core machine with SSD. If you can influence a decision I would look for something that allows you whitelist some directories and programs where impact for day to day job can be reduced. For actual security, having updated systems and well-configured networks is probably more important[1]. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3503416/maersk-up-to-date-antivirus-not-effective-against-petya.html https://www.csoonline.com/article/3503416/maersk-up-to-date-... > Microsoft said most infections occurred on Windows 7 systems andclaimed that Windows 10's in-built defenses either blocked or mitigated each of the techniques.