[dba-Tech] Win 10 virus protection

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Peter

Really? Can't you see that? Think twice.

Hint: Like Apple and Alphabet, Microsoft is not a government agency but a normal commercial enterprise.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Peter Brawley
Sendt: 15. marts 2016 15:42
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Win 10 virus protection

On 3/15/2016 9:24, Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> No, that is taking the argument too far.

Is it? What's the principle on which FBI vs Apple and NSA on our phones are Orwellian but M$oft's WDATP isn't?

PB

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> /gustav
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> Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne 
> af Peter Brawley
> Sendt: 15. marts 2016 15:17
> Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues 
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Win 10 virus protection
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> On 3/15/2016 2:20, Gustav Brock wrote:
>> 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.
> On that argument, we also ought to appreciate the FBI demanding that Apple decode its security, the NSA logging our phone & web activity &c.
>
> Orwell, rolling, grave.
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> PB
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>>    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.
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>> 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:
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>>        https://www.csis.dk/en/business/securedns/
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>> 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.
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>> It is available for stand-alone machines as well - as a client that uses the same DNS blockings as Secure DNS:
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>>       https://heimdalsecurity.com/en/
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>> However, for cleaning up clients' infected machines, Malwarebytes is a trusted helper.
>>
>> /gustav