Advanced Plus Security (From forum thread)blackice's PC Security Config

[SeriousHoax]

It has some experimental protection for protecting Defender from being disabled. It also will re-enable Defender when it get's disabled intentionally or maliciously.

I see. That could be useful for non-experienced users. I'm not worried about MD getting disabled so I guess I'll stay with Andy's tools.

 

[blackice]

I see. That could be useful for non-experienced users. I'm not worried about MD getting disabled so I guess I'll stay with Andy's tools.

I like the look of the interface better, but don't need it constantly running either. Really you could turn it off when you're done since it just makes adjustment through powershell. I was more curious than anything. I think the pro version is going to include a light version of VoodooShield.

 

[blackice]

Giving F-Secure a shot again as I am ripping and encoding my blu-ray library. Curious if there is a performance difference from Microsoft Defender. Especially the folders full of huge video files.

 

[Trooper]

Giving F-Secure a shot again as I am ripping and encoding my blu-ray library. Curious if there is a performance difference from Microsoft Defender. Especially the folders full of huge video files.

Nice man keep us posted.

 

[blackice]

Nice man keep us posted.

Will do. Next time I do a batch run of stuff I will be interested to see what happens.

 

[blackice]

So it seems pretty much the same as Defender with my workflow so far. At least it doesn’t cause any issues. Since it’s installed I’ll keep it for now.

 

[Trooper]

So it seems pretty much the same as Defender with my workflow so far. At least it doesn’t cause any issues. Since it’s installed I’ll keep it for now.

Good to hear. Now which flavor of F-Secure are you running?

 

[blackice]

Good to hear. Now which flavor of F-Secure are you running?

Safe

 

[blackice]

I went back to Defender and Malwarebytes Browser Guard since I noticed no difference in my workflow for ripping blu-rays.

 

[blackice]

Dropped Malwarebytes Browser guard for Chromium browsers. Edge -> smartscreen on, Chrome -> Bitdefender TrafficLight.

In Edge and Chrome you get one or two of these every time you close the browser:

I noticed I had about 25 of them running. Disappeared with reboot or with running Malwarebytes.

Smartscreen is fine for Edge as my main driver, and Trafficlight covers Chrome just fine as I rarely use it. I've not seen this issue with Firefox, which is my #2.

 

[blackice]

Also moved from Quad9 to using ISP DNS. I have seen tremendously better performance with their DNS (Comcast may have poor customer service, but their engineers are kind of the opposite). Probably due to edge caches and the fact that I'm a fair bit far away from any large cities where the public data centers are that I get pushed to with public resolvers.

 

[blackice]

Trying out 1.1.1.2 DoT for the home router. I was using the ISP DNS, but then Trend Micro's filtering (ASUS router) kept flagging false positives and I got tired of them making my wife unhappy. I have never seen a legit hit on AiProtection from my ASUS router. Plus turning it off gave me consistent Gig+ down. So hopefully 1.1.1.2 works as a middle ground as I have too many issues from my location with Quad9 with DoT.