[dba-Tech] Win 10 virus protection

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Jim and Susan

I think you shouldn't forget that Microsoft is a major player in fighting malware and botnets, and we should appreciate every step fighting the bad guys. And if we can help this by a tiny offer, that's our small contribution in this battle. That's for a free service; if it should turn out as a paid service, you can just refuse the offer.

The large enterprises have established monitoring, so it won't help them, but the millions of small operations have not and wouldn't know how or don't have the funding to establish it.

That said, pre-disaster is always to prefer. We do that, and I have mentioned it several times, using a service hosted by CSIS:

     https://www.csis.dk/en/business/securedns/

It's a very cheap service. On desktops we use only the free Windows Defender. We have never had any infection on our dozen or so workstations.

It is available for stand-alone machines as well - as a client that uses the same DNS blockings as Secure DNS:

    https://heimdalsecurity.com/en/

However, for cleaning up clients' infected machines, Malwarebytes is a trusted helper.

/gustav


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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 15. marts 2016 04:16
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Win 10 virus protection

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