Facebook, social media, Monster.com and similar, etc - put your email address out there and spamming is inevitable. Eliminating or greatly reducing spam means living no online social media life, creating few accounts and changing email accounts until it basically stops. The alternative is just to use secondary email accounts for the purpose of general online web activity.
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Facebook, social media, Monster.com and similar, etc - put your email address out there and spamming is inevitable. Eliminating or greatly reducing spam means living no online social media life, creating few accounts and changing email accounts until it basically stops. The alternative is just to use secondary email accounts for the purpose of general online web activity.
- Jul 3, 2015
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I didn't know that WFC learning mode alerts for non-signed. That sounds good. I might give it a try again -- I got put off by all the alerts.
- Nov 19, 2014
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I didn't know either. I stopped reading about the mode when i saw learning as the name. I assumed it allows everything which it was something that doesn't interest me. I actually made a suggestion to the developer to change the name few minutes ago.
Today i was lucky and saw what the mode actually does.
- Nov 19, 2014
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Added:Rollback Rx Home
Went ahead and installed Rollback Rx Home edition to have a faster system restore when needed. Will keep doing the macrium reflect backups but will use them as secondary backups for now.
To not have issues with updates i set windows through group policy to download but not install until i do it manually. Not 100% that the option is still valid but we will know for sure on next patch Tuesday.
Went ahead and installed Rollback Rx Home edition to have a faster system restore when needed. Will keep doing the macrium reflect backups but will use them as secondary backups for now.
To not have issues with updates i set windows through group policy to download but not install until i do it manually. Not 100% that the option is still valid but we will know for sure on next patch Tuesday.
- Aug 28, 2015
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Let me know how that works for you. Been meaning to try it but have heard mixed reviews about it.
- Nov 19, 2014
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Added:Simplewall
Removed: Wfc
A lot lighter than wfc and pretty much does the same thing with active development.
Removed: Wfc
A lot lighter than wfc and pretty much does the same thing with active development.
- Jul 3, 2015
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In what way is it lighter? Did WFC affect the speed of internet connections?
- Nov 19, 2014
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It uses too many cpu cycles when you have a lot of connections. In all honestly it uses a lot more cpu that simplefirewall for everything and i believe it's because it's manipulating windows firewall instead of just filtering like simplefirewall.
I agree, the reason I don't like WFC is that it even uses more CPU and runs slower compared to CF while it's just an UI for WF with network monitor and some settings only available in the paid version
- Nov 19, 2014
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On the other hand WFC is only $10 and without any bugs while simplewall has some small bugs. It was still worth it for me to switch but we will see if i stick to it or if not.
- Jan 16, 2017
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- Nov 19, 2014
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No. You can add from notifications, browsing for the executable and from running processes menu it provides.
- Jan 16, 2017
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I wish it had. Thats one feature I liked about WFC. I'm thinking about giving it a try someday when you mentioned it being lighter than WFC.
- Nov 19, 2014
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It's easier to allow from alerts or running processes so you really shouldn't have a problem.
- Jan 16, 2017
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- Jul 28, 2016
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Nice config ( s ) brother! Well covered on all sides! Only one thing ; why do you have both the desktop version and the extension of adguard enabled?
- Nov 19, 2014
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I use the extension for https filtering. I don't want adguard desktop to do it by replacing the sites certificate with their own.
Nope i haven't tried it.
- Jan 16, 2017
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- Nov 19, 2014
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Removed: Ccleaner
They messed up with digitally signing their application that hackers infected. They are never again getting on my pc.
Upgraded: Testing rehips alpha 2.3.0
They messed up with digitally signing their application that hackers infected. They are never again getting on my pc.
Upgraded: Testing rehips alpha 2.3.0
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- Mar 1, 2014
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The major reason why I don't use/test ReHIPS now is it's not fully compatible with my touchpad driver with regards to sandboxing some application (i.e. Touchpad gestures wouldn't work). Because of this "incompatibility" my usage of ReHIPS would be limited to some applications and the use of the HIPS.
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