Battle Heimdal - OR - NextDNS - help me decide

[CypherZero]

hey, I wanted to "tap the wisdom" of the community here and get your thoughts on this:

Like most everyone here, I run multi-layered security. In my case, it's been Kaspersky Internet Security plus Heimdal. Recently though, I've been testing NextDNS and REALLY like it! The ad filtering has been impressive and I also like some of their many security configuration capabilities as well. Since you can't run NextDNS and Heimdal's Dark Layer Guard simultaneously ....

QUESTION: Does Heimdal provide substantially better protection from Malware than NextDNS?

Up until now, I've been doing ad filtering with uBlock Origen at the browser level (which has been fine) but ... as I said ... I've been really appreciating NextDNS 's security AND ad filtering capabilities so trying to determine how much I would lose "security wise" if I were to drop Heimdal in favor of running NextDNS? Or would I not lose anything and it'd be an equal trade-off?

What do you think?

 

[upnorth]

Heimdal Security been around a few years now and is/was a Danish company. It's now a part of the Marlin Equity Partners.

Marlin completes the acquisition of Heimdal - Marlin Equity

LOS ANGELES and LONDON, March 5, 2020 – Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”) is pleased to announce that it has acquired Heimdal Security (“Heimdal”), a leading European provider of cloud-based cybersecurity solutions. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark and with a strong presence in Scandinavia...

www.marlinequity.com

Their still silly quick with email replies, but sadly nowadays don't deliver software updates as fast as they used to. Can't speak for all users/customers and maybe it's a huge difference with their business version. It works, don't get me wrong and their UI ( user interface ) beats IMO all update softwares. But not everything is about looks. If a software and extra so a security software, that specific profiled itself on how important software updates are, for any reason can not and will not fully do what it's supposed to, personal I can't recommend it. Also one version been tested in the Hub with not the best results.

Malware Hub Report - Thor Premium - February 2020 Report

Thor Premium - February 2020 Report Due to the small number of samples used in this tests, you should take results with a grain of salt. We encourage you to compare these results with others and take informed decisions on what security products to use. __ C: Clean / P: Protected / P - NC...

malwaretips.com

I think they have a lot to work on and not so sure how well this acquisition in the end will actually be.

 

[Freki123]

I used the Heimdal Foresight about two years ago (no clue if the dns thingy had this name then). They listed some sites as dangerous which I still consider totally legit. Email support was 1+ they answered within hours.

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stacksocial.com

50$ for a lifetime license if you chose to use it.

 

[poopdookie]

I know this is an old thread, but let me add that I use Heimdal foresight on a few of my devices around the house along with a pihole. The Heimdal foresight agent catches a few phishing attempts that the pihole and other protections I have don't catch. Maybe my pihole list choices are crap, but heimdal has done a very good job of plucking off many things that make it through. The LTD is one of my favorite buys from stacksocial.

 

[yashiscool]

I would vote for NextDNS any day. But yes, Heimdal is also almost equally good except for the updates as you pointed out. So, ultimately it doesn’t matter unless you are paranoid about certain things.

 

[Thales]

I also have bad experience with Heimdal, so NextDNS. Their protection is kinda bad IMO.