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Why are we even messing with anything other than WD these days?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 821305" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p><strong>All true on some computers and not important for most users.</strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">High resource usage (slows computer to a crawl) - <span style="color: rgb(61, 142, 185)"><strong>generally not true on updated WIndows 10, (can be sporadically true on some computers) </strong></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lack of customization without third-party tools -<span style="color: rgb(61, 142, 185)"><strong> TRUE, but not important for most users. There is nothing wrong with using third party tools. </strong></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">poor default settings that will fail to protect you against most malware, check malwarehub - <span style="color: rgb(61, 142, 185)"><strong>WD was tested a long time ago on MH , indepedent Lab tests do not support poor protection in the real world tests.</strong></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slow updates and fixes (due to relying on Windows 10 Feature Updates, same issue Microsoft Edge had) - <strong><span style="color: rgb(61, 142, 185)">it is not an issue due to Block At First Sight feature, except working off line.</span></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Exclusions don't work properly (ignores whitelisted files you just recovered from quarantine and quarantines them over and over again) - <span style="color: rgb(61, 142, 185)"><strong>generally not true, but there is another known bug with temporary exclusions after cleaning the history.</strong></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">High rate of false positives (with the issue above, and the fact it quarantines all files without asking makes it extremely frustrating to use). - <span style="color: rgb(61, 142, 185)"><strong>independent tests do not support this, in fact, the false positives rate is close to average for high and medium prevalence files; most users will not feel the false positives rate for low and very low prevalence files.</strong></span></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 821305, member: 32260"] [B]All true on some computers and not important for most users.[/B] [LIST] [*]High resource usage (slows computer to a crawl) - [COLOR=rgb(61, 142, 185)][B]generally not true on updated WIndows 10, (can be sporadically true on some computers) [/B][/COLOR] [*]Lack of customization without third-party tools -[COLOR=rgb(61, 142, 185)][B] TRUE, but not important for most users. There is nothing wrong with using third party tools. [/B][/COLOR] [*]poor default settings that will fail to protect you against most malware, check malwarehub - [COLOR=rgb(61, 142, 185)][B]WD was tested a long time ago on MH , indepedent Lab tests do not support poor protection in the real world tests.[/B][/COLOR] [*]Slow updates and fixes (due to relying on Windows 10 Feature Updates, same issue Microsoft Edge had) - [B][COLOR=rgb(61, 142, 185)]it is not an issue due to Block At First Sight feature, except working off line.[/COLOR][/B] [*]Exclusions don't work properly (ignores whitelisted files you just recovered from quarantine and quarantines them over and over again) - [COLOR=rgb(61, 142, 185)][B]generally not true, but there is another known bug with temporary exclusions after cleaning the history.[/B][/COLOR] [*]High rate of false positives (with the issue above, and the fact it quarantines all files without asking makes it extremely frustrating to use). - [COLOR=rgb(61, 142, 185)][B]independent tests do not support this, in fact, the false positives rate is close to average for high and medium prevalence files; most users will not feel the false positives rate for low and very low prevalence files.[/B][/COLOR] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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