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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 895893">There is Network Protection which acts as sort of a web filter, but that is disabled by default. The real web-filter is smartscreen for Edge, which is quite good. MS is assuming that the person is using Edge, hence why smartscreen is there, however, a lot of people use 3rd party browsers, so smartscreen (the web-filter aspect) won&#039;t be of any use to those people. Network protection can help there, however I am not an expert on how it works, maybe [USER=32260]@Andy Ful[/USER] can elaborate on it further. Most major browsers offer decent browsing protection by default, however one could add an extension (BDTL, Malwarebytes, Emsisoft, etc...) to further their protection if they want to use WD and a 3rd party browser.The one thing that gets confusing with WD and W10 security in general is that it&#039;s not set up like a traditional security suite. Everything is spread out to different parts of the OS, all working together to provide protection like a 3rd party suite. It&#039;s a different way of thinking because we are all use to suites where everything is included as one program, not spread out like WD/W10. This doesn&#039;t mean WD is necessarily better, or the best solution for everyone, but overall it&#039;s quite capable and will fit the bill for the majority of users. Nothing is ever perfect, so as I always say, use the solution that best meets your needs.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 895893"] There is Network Protection which acts as sort of a web filter, but that is disabled by default. The real web-filter is smartscreen for Edge, which is quite good. MS is assuming that the person is using Edge, hence why smartscreen is there, however, a lot of people use 3rd party browsers, so smartscreen (the web-filter aspect) won't be of any use to those people. Network protection can help there, however I am not an expert on how it works, maybe [USER=32260]@Andy Ful[/USER] can elaborate on it further. Most major browsers offer decent browsing protection by default, however one could add an extension (BDTL, Malwarebytes, Emsisoft, etc...) to further their protection if they want to use WD and a 3rd party browser. The one thing that gets confusing with WD and W10 security in general is that it's not set up like a traditional security suite. Everything is spread out to different parts of the OS, all working together to provide protection like a 3rd party suite. It's a different way of thinking because we are all use to suites where everything is included as one program, not spread out like WD/W10. This doesn't mean WD is necessarily better, or the best solution for everyone, but overall it's quite capable and will fit the bill for the majority of users. Nothing is ever perfect, so as I always say, use the solution that best meets your needs.(y) [/QUOTE]

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