Advanced Security oldschool's cheapo laptop configuration

[oldschool]

As long as you are using a secure DNS

Quad9 in use here.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Quad9 in use here.

Same it's privacy friendly catches a lot of malicious sites yet has very low false positives ratio (haven't had a single false positive myself)
Best balanced DNS

 

[TairikuOkami]

Same it's privacy friendly

Secure yes, private, not sure. It was funded by U.S. Secret Service, City of London Police, France National Police, France Ministry of Justice, amongst others, but what puzzles nem how much they are trying to hide it (like adguard that it originated in Russia). Sure, it is listed somewhere on their webpage, but it was designed by privacy loving governments, still lurking in the background.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Secure yes, private, not sure. It was funded by U.S. Secret Service, City of London Police, France National Police, France Ministry of Justice, amongst others, but what puzzles nem how much they are trying to hide it (like adguard that it originated in Russia). Sure, it is listed somewhere on their webpage, but it was designed by privacy loving governments, still lurking in the background.

You can't hide from the government and nice that they make good use of criminal asset forfeiture
It's more like privacy against companies rather from governments

 

[oldschool]

Back to MS Defender. I uninstalled Panda Free right before @Shadowra posted the latest test video, as if I had a premonition.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Back to MS Defender. I uninstalled Panda Free right before @Shadowra posted the latest test video, as if I had a premonition.

Panda only advantage is lower performance usage I believe it's a good choice and only devices with 2gb ram +hdd would benefit from panda lower usage

 

[oldschool]

I'm playing @ErzCrz's version of AV ping pong. Installed Bitdefender Free, because it's the very best AV in the world, as proven in this test. The best, until the next 'best' comes along.

 

[rashmi]

I'm playing @ErzCrz's version of AV ping pong.

Get ready to witness the epic clash of the Undefeated Champion and the Reigning Champion in the quest for AV Ping-Pong Supremacy!

 

[ErzCrz]

I'm playing @ErzCrz's version of AV ping pong. Installed Bitdefender Free, because it's the very best AV in the world, as proven in this test. The best, until the next 'best' comes along.

Hehe I'm trying to be a little less ping pong this year and with CyberLock's new Smart Firewall (effectively FWH) I may even get away without WFC or the overkill CF. We'll see how it goes but it quite funny that it's a thing that I ping pong between setups

 

[Miravi]

I'm playing @ErzCrz's version of AV ping pong. Installed Bitdefender Free, because it's the very best AV in the world, as proven in this test. The best, until the next 'best' comes along.

How's the performance feeling on your laptop?

 

[oldschool]

How's the performance feeling on your laptop?

BD has quite a few running processes, uses quite a bit of RAM, but otherwise seems equal in performance to MS Defender or K7, which I tried recently. The only thing I noticed was very slow, initial loading of one particular website, Recent Results » AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation.

 

[Pat MacKnife]

This website loads very fast here with BD , maybe something to do with Dns server ?

 

[oldschool]

This website loads very fast here with BD , maybe something to do with Dns server ?

It's fine today. The above post was referring to yesterday when I first went to the site.

 

[Kongo]

I'm playing @ErzCrz's version of AV ping pong. Installed Bitdefender Free, because it's the very best AV in the world, as proven in this test. The best, until the next 'best' comes along.

Not gonna lie. I am very picky when it comes to AVs. Something pretty much always bothers me. Installed Bitdefender Free on my girlfriends laptop and it just works.

 

[oldschool]

Not gonna lie. I am very picky when it comes to AVs. Something pretty much always bothers me. Installed Bitdefender Free on my girlfriends laptop and it just works.

Indeed, I may keep it around for a while.

 

[simmerskool]

Indeed, I may keep it around for a while.

interesting, I've tried to like BD but has always seemed "buggy-slow" to me and I uninstall it within a week or two. I ran a Bitdefender Box with my previous router for about 1 year!, but IIRC BD pulled that project, but vague about that. I had a Box 1, then I think there was a Box2, but never a Box 3... PS Box 1 was a pain in the ass to setup.