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I have never used Avast. However, I think that any third-party security software has the convenience of such adjustments better than the Defender. I get the impression that Microsoft's security, including firewalls, is a bit cumbersome to set up.
Agreed, it's like Microsoft does it on purpose.I have never used Avast. However, I think that any third-party security software has the convenience of such adjustments better than the Defender. I get the impression that Microsoft's security, including firewalls, is a bit cumbersome to set up.
I mean they provide more features that may provide more protection
My webcam protection is free. It's called "point the webcam to the ceiling when not using".I mean they provide more features that may provide more protection
they have VPN service banking protection Webcam protection & blah blah ...may be my false?
the best AV is brain+common sense Av?
They do and for good reason.
I didn't notice this ideaThey do and for good reason.
We must not forget that the vast majority Windows users aren't very technical and as a result MS caters to them more then us techies/security geeks. We'd like to think we are more important, but we are not.
MS doesn't want to deal with support requests/compliants from those who make changes without realizing what those changes do. All 3rd parties have defaults which provide a good balance between security and performance. Even they recommend against changing them if you don't know what you are doing.
The biggest difference really, is the ease of access to those settings. We must also remember that MS has geared these settings to be used primary in business/enterprises, not by home users. In saying that, atleast they still let us geeks change them if we want to, even if it is a little more work.
. It may be close to emisi in the sense that you don't want to change the settings too much. It is also more flexible than emisi in that it can be changed according to knowledge.I did mention Emsisoft in one of my previous posts just for those specific reasons @Raiden mentioned. Only it isnt a complete Internet Security solution (am a user of it myself) if the OP wants all the bells and whistles that you would usually find in an IS solution. Plus in my opinion if the OP is used to Sophos interface which is also quite user-friendly in my opinion, then that will have my vote. And some people just simply don't want to deal with third-party tools to more easily enhance Microsoft Defender which is understandable, to each their own right.I didn't notice this idea
I feel that being able to make a wide range of settings according to the user's knowledge is an important point for software used by various people.
Could you describe what the issues you had with Macrium when using Defender and CF please? I'm asking because I encountered some issues recently with Reflect scheduled backups not running when I had a PC using Defender and CF. I thought that it may have been CF permissions blocking the backup from running, I went through all of the possible settings that I could think of and found nothing that I felt might be the cause (I'm using CS's settings). I disabled CF and the next scheduled backup ran OK. I haven't had time to go back to this device and puzzle out what the cause was, its basically a test machine that is not networked so its not my current priority.
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When booting my PC, I had a window asking me if I would like to boot with Windows or Macrium. When I clicked on Windows, it asked me the time I'd like to take to boot into Windows. After that, after each booting, I would get this window and my PC would boot after a 5 seconds lapse. I looked for settings in Macrium and CF and couldn't find any. So I uninstalled CF and my PC booted normally.
Thanks for the quick response. So, like me you couldn't find the correct setting(s) to overcome the issue. I spent some time going through forums and FAQs for both CF and Macrium without success. I'm suspecting that it might be CF rather than Macrium at fault here, as Comodo have a reputation for abandoning things, while I feel that Macrium are better at maintaining their products. I could be wrong about Comodo as their firewall has probably been their most reliable product long-term and I hope it stays that way.
