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<blockquote data-quote="SpiderWeb" data-source="post: 1094094" data-attributes="member: 88686">Very happy with Bitdefender. It is actually working, tested generic drive-by downloads and archived files and it cleans all of them even if they haven&#039;t completed download yet. I added Little Snitch Mini as a firewall and it&#039;s already worth every penny. The ability to add blocklists cuts so much work out for people who are looking for a general ruleset. I added HaGeZi Threat and Fabezi Malicious Blocklist to really solely focus on removing threat vectors that apps tend to connect to without causing the apps themselves to break. It shows you every domain or IP a program is connected to and provides it on a world map. None of my connections are going anywhere near Russia or China so that is a relief. The most active connections are the browsers, cloud stoage providers (iCloud, Proton Drive, etc), and macOS which seems to constantly check where all my other Apple devices are to stay in sync.Fun detail: The two connections that point into the Atlantic Ocean are Tailscale VPN and my Local Network. Both use reserved private IP ranges that don&#039;t map to anywhere in the world. The other one pointing into the Pacific Ocean is actually legit, it&#039;s Hawaii. I guess it was a wise decision to pick a place in the middle of an ocean to avoid overlap.[ATTACH=full]284431[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiderWeb, post: 1094094, member: 88686"] Very happy with Bitdefender. It is actually working, tested generic drive-by downloads and archived files and it cleans all of them even if they haven't completed download yet. I added Little Snitch Mini as a firewall and it's already worth every penny. The ability to add blocklists cuts so much work out for people who are looking for a general ruleset. I added HaGeZi Threat and Fabezi Malicious Blocklist to really solely focus on removing threat vectors that apps tend to connect to without causing the apps themselves to break. It shows you every domain or IP a program is connected to and provides it on a world map. None of my connections are going anywhere near Russia or China so that is a relief. The most active connections are the browsers, cloud stoage providers (iCloud, Proton Drive, etc), and macOS which seems to constantly check where all my other Apple devices are to stay in sync. Fun detail: The two connections that point into the Atlantic Ocean are Tailscale VPN and my Local Network. Both use reserved private IP ranges that don't map to anywhere in the world. The other one pointing into the Pacific Ocean is actually legit, it's Hawaii. I guess it was a wise decision to pick a place in the middle of an ocean to avoid overlap. [ATTACH type="full" width="639px"]284431[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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