Advanced Plus Security blackice’s 2020 Security Config

[blackice]

Ow, I see. Great then
The PC is for playing games and the laptop is for playing with AVs

You got it!

 

[blackice]

Added-
Bandizip

Preserves MoTW. I don't use it to open anything except zipped files that I encrypt with Bandizip. The interface is also an improvement vs 7-zip.

 

[fabiobr]

So apparently with a fresh install, even on the same M$ account, Windows 10 doesn’t recognize apps in their windowsapps folders outside the c:. It is also a folder that is basically impossible to delete. I managed to mostly empty them, but windows failed to be able to use the secondary drives to install windows apps because of those old folders. The solution is apparently format the drives. This is only really a problem for gamers who need the space of a secondary drive for windows apps. Very much a bummer.

This is a headache! I suffered when did a clean install of Windows and later discovered the Xbox Game pass games is not recognized in the new clean install of Windows. Had to format all the drive and install games all over again.

 

[blackice]

This is a headache! I suffored when did a clean install of Windows and later discovered the Xbox Game pass games is not recognized in the new clean install of Windows. Had to format all the drive and install games all over again.

That is exactly what happened to me. If you are just reimaging an old image I found that starting the install on the same drive can cause it to detect the games sometimes. Windows Apps have a lot of promise, but they just miss the mark.

 

[fabiobr]

I installed ESET after an update to 2004 that went pretty well. Apparently the old version of the HEIF Image Extension app isn’t compatible with ESET’s 2004 update. I reinstalled windows with a refresh and data wipe. Now reinstalled ESET and it’s working fine. Going to compare performance to Bitdefender and see which one will stay on the gaming machine. I’m inheriting my wife’s XPS 15 as she decided to go back to a Mac for better compatibility with her uses. Filming on an iPhone is a pain in the butt with a PC. But a win for me, already have new RAM in hand.


Removed-
WD

Added-
ESET IS

I love ESET lightness, well designed and highly configurable. But I still feel more protected with Bitdefender or Kaspersky.

ATC at Bitdefender is very godd, while ESET doesn't even have a behavior blocker.

 

[fabiobr]

I went back to Bitdefender for the gaming rig and am putting ESET on my inherited laptop, ladyice's macbook arrived

Removed-
ESET IS

Added-
Bitdefender IS

I have a 4GB old laptop and feel Bitdefender lighter than Kaspersky, although it uses more RAM.

It's a 4 core Celeron and BD uses less CPU than Kaspersky for what I see. But, of course, nothing beats the lightness of ESET.

 

[fabiobr]

That is exactly what happened to me. If you are just reimaging an old image I found that starting the install on the same drive can cause it to detect the games sometimes. Windows Apps have a lot of promise, but they just miss the mark.

You mean the games being installed on the same system drive or installing the system on the previous same drive and game on another?

Here I let SSD to the system/main softwares and HDD for the games.

 

[blackice]

You mean the games being installed on the same system drive or installing the system on the previous same drive and game on another?

Here I let SSD to the system/main softwares and HDD for the games.

In this case it was setup so my system was on SSD and the games were in a separate hdd. So when I reimage the SSD the hdd still has the game folder. But occasionally W10 won’t recognize the HDD as being the right format... very annoying to reformat.

 

[blackice]

Removed Brave, I kept going back to Firefox and Edge (Chromium) as my main browsers. I use Chrome for all of my google stuff and for streaming.

Removed-
Brave

Added (mostly because I forgot to add it before)-
Chrome

 

[blackice]

Removed-
All Browsers: AdGuard
Chrome: Privacy Badger

Added-
All Browsers : uBlock Origin

 

[blackice]

Never heard back from Bitdefender about issues with auto profile switching. It was updating even with the game profile on, and the game profile was getting stuck on with various launchers running, even with no game running. It was also the thing preventing windows from keeping it's sleep settings. I did their basic trouble shooting and they were responsive through that, but once they asked for me to use their recording tool and reproduce the issue I never heard back. They didn't even confirm they received the file from the recording tool. So:

Removed:
Bitdefender

Applied:
Configure Defender on High for now. May use ESET while I still have the license. But my experimenting patience has worn thin. ESET is reliable and less buggy.

Note: The bug I encountered with BD isn't a deal breaker for most people. Most of the time nobody would be affected by this. I would still recommend it. But as I was using it as a family solution and my wife moved back to Mac, I have no reason to stick with it.

 

[blackice]

Giving Brave a shot again as the security of Firefox going forward may be even less certain. Edge or Chrome may become the daily driver.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Giving Brave a shot again as the security of Firefox going forward may be even less certain. Edge or Chrome may become the daily driver.

Do you know if it's possible to send tabs from PC to mobile and vice versa like Chrome and Firefox?

 

[blackice]

Do you know if it's possible to send tabs from PC to mobile and vice versa like Chrome and Firefox?

There is a syncing function I’ve never tried because everybody says it sucks and to wait for the new update for sync, which is supposedly almost ready.

 

[SeriousHoax]

There is a syncing function I’ve never tried because everybody says it sucks and to wait for the new update for sync, which is supposedly almost ready.

Ow ok then. I can wait. I'm also looking forward to their extension support on Android. They're working on it but still a long way to go I think.

 

[oldschool]

Giving Brave a shot again as the security of Firefox going forward may be even less certain. Edge or Chrome may become the daily driver.

Remember that Brave handles referers and some other chromium internals more securely/privately than Edge or Chrome.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Remember that Brave handles referers and some other chromium internals more securely/privately than Edge or Chrome.

How much money is Brave giving you?

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Remember that Brave handles referers and some other chromium internals more securely/privately than Edge or Chrome.

Let's do the test:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=useragent&t=hk&ia=answer

My result in Edge:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36 Edg/84.0.522.59
Other HTTP headers
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: de,de-DE;q=0.9,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.7,en-US;q=0.6
Host: duckduckgo.com
Referer: DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36 Edg/84.0.522.59
DNT: 1
SEC-FETCH-DEST: document
SEC-FETCH-MODE: navigate
SEC-FETCH-SITE: same-origin
SEC-FETCH-USER: ?1
UPGRADE-INSECURE-REQUESTS: 1

 

[oldschool]

Let's do the test:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=useragent&t=hk&ia=answer

My result in Edge:

Please decipher for us less technically inclined.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Please decipher for us less technically inclined.

Just open the URL and paste your result here