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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 736648"><p>This is really an important post..</p><p></p><p>People are wasting to much money on these placebo security offerings. We're all guilty of it.. How many of us have products laying around we purchased and are rotting away, expiring without being used? We often don't even complete the 30 day trial before buying them, then regretting it later.</p><p></p><p>1) Only install what you need and use on your system. (reducing threat surface, use portable if you can!)</p><p>2) Use a GOOD hardware firewall. (if you can afford it, a UTM, far better)</p><p>3) Use Chrome, install uBlock.</p><p>4) Remove windows bloat/telemetry, and lock it down.</p><p>5) Use a quality anti-malware DNS service (or Pi-Hole if you have $30 and a brain)</p><p></p><p>Move along.. Don't buy stuff.. You are done.. Just don't do dumb things. You are all set, quite possibly without spending any money and without worrying about renewals of this or that, or yet another security suite letting you down or impeding your computer use.</p><p></p><p>Or you could buy a Chromebook or switch to Linux/Debian and do nothing..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 736648"] This is really an important post.. People are wasting to much money on these placebo security offerings. We're all guilty of it.. How many of us have products laying around we purchased and are rotting away, expiring without being used? We often don't even complete the 30 day trial before buying them, then regretting it later. 1) Only install what you need and use on your system. (reducing threat surface, use portable if you can!) 2) Use a GOOD hardware firewall. (if you can afford it, a UTM, far better) 3) Use Chrome, install uBlock. 4) Remove windows bloat/telemetry, and lock it down. 5) Use a quality anti-malware DNS service (or Pi-Hole if you have $30 and a brain) Move along.. Don't buy stuff.. You are done.. Just don't do dumb things. You are all set, quite possibly without spending any money and without worrying about renewals of this or that, or yet another security suite letting you down or impeding your computer use. Or you could buy a Chromebook or switch to Linux/Debian and do nothing.. [/QUOTE]
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