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Windows Defender vs Ransomware! (Shocking Results?)
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<blockquote data-quote="monkeylove" data-source="post: 1082024" data-attributes="member: 19756"><p>Stop attacking me and others. Instead, attack the points.</p><p></p><p>You talk about tweaking software. That's not a "good habit" but what users have to do because they forget. That's why our discussion is getting tiresome: you keep contradicting yourself.</p><p></p><p>Another "good habit" is to make sure that signature databases are updated. Actually, that's not the only thing: you need to check the security program every few hours (or less?) to see if everything is updated. And you need to do that for all of the other software in your system. And what happens if that doesn't work?</p><p></p><p>See what's happening? Indeed, nothing is fool-proof, but notice how "good habits" keep shifting to make up for that. First, it involves just visiting "legit" sites and using "legit" software. Next, it's tweaking software not to run things automatically, let even "legit" software sit for several days (or maybe weeks) to see if they're safe, but no comment on "legit" sites. And before that uploading the app to a site to have it checked (maybe post the URL of the site to have it checked, too? periodically? how many times?). And to make sure, run the app in a sandbox, and so on.</p><p></p><p>And now traffic filtering?</p><p></p><p>In the real world, most people forget to do all of these things. Why do you think Defender and other software keeps getting updated with the features you mention, and run them automatically?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="monkeylove, post: 1082024, member: 19756"] Stop attacking me and others. Instead, attack the points. You talk about tweaking software. That's not a "good habit" but what users have to do because they forget. That's why our discussion is getting tiresome: you keep contradicting yourself. Another "good habit" is to make sure that signature databases are updated. Actually, that's not the only thing: you need to check the security program every few hours (or less?) to see if everything is updated. And you need to do that for all of the other software in your system. And what happens if that doesn't work? See what's happening? Indeed, nothing is fool-proof, but notice how "good habits" keep shifting to make up for that. First, it involves just visiting "legit" sites and using "legit" software. Next, it's tweaking software not to run things automatically, let even "legit" software sit for several days (or maybe weeks) to see if they're safe, but no comment on "legit" sites. And before that uploading the app to a site to have it checked (maybe post the URL of the site to have it checked, too? periodically? how many times?). And to make sure, run the app in a sandbox, and so on. And now traffic filtering? In the real world, most people forget to do all of these things. Why do you think Defender and other software keeps getting updated with the features you mention, and run them automatically? [/QUOTE]
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