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Why you need 3rd party vendors where some of them introduces vulnerabilities when you have built-in Windows Defender and Firewall? Or you love those popups fro
by jve 2y ago
Why you need 3rd party vendors where some of them introduces vulnerabilities when you have built-in Windows Defender and Firewall?
Or you love those popups from 3rd party vendors?
- nix0n 2y agoI'm assuming the drop of first-party support will force me onto a third-party. I have had bad experiences in the past, so I'm trying to find out if there are any good ones. I know my CPU will take a hit, but I have cycles to spare despite not having TPU support.
- grujicd 2y agoI'm using Nod32 (or whatever Eset calls it these days) for more than a decade and it's mostly not noticeable. I can recommend it over Defender from performance point of view - since I noticed slowdowns on machines where Defender is used. It's hard to know which one protects better, didn't have any kind of "infection" since started using Nod.
- eviks 2y agoWindows introduces vulnerabilities all the time, how is that an argument? Or do you love the ugly interface of Firewall?
- jve 2y agoWell, by increasing attack surface you do introduce potentially more vulnerabilities. And this ain't a fairy tale - lots of stories about AV MITMing traffic, introducing unsecure endpoints, adware, etc.
- eviks 2y agoBy increasing the defense surface you do remove existing vulnerabilities. Also disabling Defender is reducting the attack surface