I would rather spend my time teaching people not to open everything they see on the internet and the importance of firewalls and the whilelist mode and since there are good firewalls, where UI is not complicated where you have to jump through 30 windows to whitelist something and don’t have alerts (because most people would just click allow with them) like Tinywall and Fort Firewall (for now) then it would be easier for anyone to block and allow what they need and will use, or you can set it up and then adjust it if something comes up.īut balancing when and antiwhatever can be effective vs how much resources it uses and when it might be useful to have it on I rather just go to registry and remove it completely not even just turn the realtime stuff. So I turn all these annoyances off for myself and everyone else around me, well, not the safe browsing because I don’t expect them to download the files I download so it is whatever, at least it doesn’t run all the time and uses a bunch of disk and cpu like any antivirus/malware/whatever does. Just turn it off and problem solved… anything like a antivirus, antimalware or antiwhatever is useless most of the time, filled always by false positives and deleting good files because they are “signed”.Įven Safe Browsing (which is controlled by Google) is annoying for people like me because it always cause problems with whatever Google wants to flag as “malicious” even if it is not and then people suffer and have to do a lot of stuff for their files to stop being flagged, a bunch of ‘bureaucracy’ that shouldn’t be needed any place and less on the internet only because some “big tech” think they own the internet.

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