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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1032730" data-attributes="member: 78686">That&#039;s alright. Gorhill and Adguard don&#039;t like generic cosmetic filters either, especially for Annoyance filters. But I notice that in your two annoyance filters there&#039;s barely any rule that&#039;s not generic. For example, &quot;I don&#039;t care about cookies&quot;, only 1,355 out of 25,608 are being used meaning only the used ones are not generic. This indicates that the filter is almost entirely generic filter based and might not be very helpful. That&#039;s not a good thing since generic filters have performance impact (Though I don&#039;t notice in real life). So not sure how effective it is in your config. On the other hand, Adguard Annoyance (Optimized) is the reverse. They have only 1K+ generic filters out of 38K rules. So, 37k is in use even when generic cosmetic filters are disabled. Anyway, if your current settings works then it&#039;s fine. Just letting you know.I&#039;m also curious if there&#039;s any benefit of adding this. Does it really help in anyway? Maybe it&#039;s mainly for MD Endpoint products. Regarding hash, what I find super helpful is the logging of sha1 hash of samples detected by MD Real-Time protection. So, it&#039;s possible to quickly copy the hash and check on Virustotal to know about the malware or potential false positives. It can be enabled via registry tweak or GPO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1032730, member: 78686"] That's alright. Gorhill and Adguard don't like generic cosmetic filters either, especially for Annoyance filters. But I notice that in your two annoyance filters there's barely any rule that's not generic. For example, "I don't care about cookies", only 1,355 out of 25,608 are being used meaning only the used ones are not generic. This indicates that the filter is almost entirely generic filter based and might not be very helpful. That's not a good thing since generic filters have performance impact (Though I don't notice in real life). So not sure how effective it is in your config. On the other hand, Adguard Annoyance (Optimized) is the reverse. They have only 1K+ generic filters out of 38K rules. So, 37k is in use even when generic cosmetic filters are disabled. Anyway, if your current settings works then it's fine. Just letting you know. I'm also curious if there's any benefit of adding this. Does it really help in anyway? Maybe it's mainly for MD Endpoint products. Regarding hash, what I find super helpful is the logging of sha1 hash of samples detected by MD Real-Time protection. So, it's possible to quickly copy the hash and check on Virustotal to know about the malware or potential false positives. It can be enabled via registry tweak or GPO. [/QUOTE]

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