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<blockquote data-quote="ncage" data-source="post: 1092713" data-attributes="member: 62363">So I have used bitdefender for a very long time &amp; until about a year ago bitdefender firewall has some functionality that i never knew it had. I prefer not to get into the details but there is an endpoint that i have to expose to the public internet through RDP (please again lets not talk about the why i&#039;m doing it like this or i will simply ignore those post). Bitdefender has a great feature in that it will detect x amount of attempts to login through RDP &amp; will block the ip for an amount of time which is a great feature (i&#039;m assuming its in the firewall part).&nbsp; Kind of like fail2ban.I am considering going away from bitdefender when it expires for a variety of reasons:1. From the memory perspective its QUITE heavy.2. I think Microsoft Defender (especially hardened is quite good) especially considering some of the machine learning/AI stuff they have added.3. I used to be able to get it dirty cheap on ebay. I have searched lately and apparently bitdefender has done something about that. Every time i have searched i could get it cheaper on amazon.Is there anything like this that it either cheap or free? I much prefer something that doesn&#039;t require the subscription path.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ncage, post: 1092713, member: 62363"] So I have used bitdefender for a very long time & until about a year ago bitdefender firewall has some functionality that i never knew it had. I prefer not to get into the details but there is an endpoint that i have to expose to the public internet through RDP (please again lets not talk about the why i'm doing it like this or i will simply ignore those post). Bitdefender has a great feature in that it will detect x amount of attempts to login through RDP & will block the ip for an amount of time which is a great feature (i'm assuming its in the firewall part). Kind of like fail2ban. I am considering going away from bitdefender when it expires for a variety of reasons: 1. From the memory perspective its QUITE heavy. 2. I think Microsoft Defender (especially hardened is quite good) especially considering some of the machine learning/AI stuff they have added. 3. I used to be able to get it dirty cheap on ebay. I have searched lately and apparently bitdefender has done something about that. Every time i have searched i could get it cheaper on amazon. Is there anything like this that it either cheap or free? I much prefer something that doesn't require the subscription path. [/QUOTE]

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