- May 16, 2018
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The problem with cylance was never the soft, it has, like every soft, it's strength and weaknesses. The problem was the shady marketing behavior of the company.
Yeah, one of the reasons I never downloaded Cylance was because of the "Unbelievably Deceptive" Tour -- or whatever it was called. Based on all the chatter about Cylance here... I decided to look at it again.
When I asked if they recommended pairing it with another security product they offered this lame jive: "It depends on what you are doing." Like what? Sounds like a pile of horse ####, but it was from the horse, of course.
Yeah, that's incredibly lame. I've not really dealt with them, so I have no experience with them.
Personally I would remove Norton Premium and not Malwarebytes; the reason for this is that the latter isn't an antivirus but an antivirus replacement, so potential incompatibilities and system impact hit should be lower.
Certainly if one looks at product trends, Norton could be on a downward trajectory right now. And I hope.... MBAM is on an upward trajectory right now.
I contacted Cylance, asking precisely about the difference in Protect v. Smart Antivirus (just to hear it from the horse's mouth!) and the response I got was: "No Script Control or Memory Protection"..
Even tho C can be a complementary for other AVs, you must pay for it and it's very new (about a month) old product stepping into home user market, I would still take caution about it.
Oh, good point.
As you can see, they are very generous with the number of free licenses they give us..
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