[dba-Tech] Win 10 virus protection

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Peter:

Have you heard about Microsoft's latest adventure; post-breach detection to Windows 10. 

http://bit.ly/1Lnwa3v and http://bit.ly/1QTWjHq

IMHO, this a just a post disaster product that will come as a per machine service charge. If there is to be a security product let it be a pre-disaster protection system. 

A few of observations from these articles are as follows: How much data has MS been vacuuming off Windows 10 PCs to acquire this knowledge in the first place and just how much more will be expropriated? How much bandwidth will it take run these continuous post disaster analysis routines on a big network? What happens to the anonymous data that has and will be acquired from all these businesses? From my observation Windows 10 is well on its way to make MS user's PCs into little more than data mines for hyper-connected terminals. The irony is that all this is that Microsoft is using a massive Linux internet infra-structure to go for absolute control.

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 11:20:59 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Win 10 virus protection

On 3/14/2016 9:58, Susan Harkins wrote:
> What do you guys think of the virus protection that comes with Windows 10?
> I'm still using a paid sub to Vipre but plan to dump it when this sub is up
> - not working as well as it used to. I'm skeptical about what Windows 10
> offers - find it hard to believe it could be comprehensive on its own.

With WD alone this new win10 laptop caught a cold within two weeks. With 
free editions of Bit Defender & MalwareBytes, all good in the three 
months since.

PB

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