WD with Hard_Configurator with ConfigureDefender set on HIGH is hard to beat. It's easy to use and configure and has good protection for free!
No experience with AVAST, it scores perfectly but WD with H_C (or other AndyFul's tools) is hard to beat. Also worth a mention is danb's tools, really good too!
IF you can get a cheap AVAST license for say $10 then go for it, my motto is the cheapest license for the best protection. You have lots of options.
No experience with AVAST, it scores perfectly but WD with H_C (or other AndyFul's tools) is hard to beat. Also worth a mention is danb's tools, really good too!
IF you can get a cheap AVAST license for say $10 then go for it, my motto is the cheapest license for the best protection. You have lots of options.
Yeah I gather it is quite powerful in some ways, but pales when dealing against a hacker. In my eset HIPS configuration, all I missed was specifying the recycle bin as a malware/hackware execution point and my red team escalated to admin, erased 2 days of eset logs. And stopped execution of all programs ( I only tested brave and eset, but lets just say it was the whole shebang, quite the chilling effect. ). And then nicely restored the capability after a reboot. Yes 2 days worth of logs were gone and definitely points to their doing. So I was sure it was my mistake because the theory of breaking writeable executable kill chain was sound, Found the mistake and confirmed with my red team. All through this, did the the holy automatic detection that you guys fuss so much about stop the intrusion - no. And Eset Endpoint even earned gold at AV-Comparatives ATP test. It took them a good week to find this security hole, but they had patience and focus. As for the automatic defense stuff, I say no pain no gain. Secure configuration is mandatory, requires effort, but stops/delays the bad guys. Your tool doesn't offer HIPS-like configurability ? Then prepare to fail. You have to use your knowledge and insight of how malware works to augment your tool. And you can't do that if your tool offers no configurability.
