Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
by londons_explore on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:21PM
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to be fair, most malware hides in App Data too... it's a convenient place thats hard to find using windows explorer and guaranteed to be user-writable.
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Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
by cptskippy on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:14PM
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Yes and McAfee was locking files for tens of seconds while it scanned. Things like Visual Studio and Notepad++ would become unresponsive after a single keystroke.
Re:Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
by hermitdev on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:32PM
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Back when I had to use McAfee on a work PC; I was using WSL 1 for building the projects I was running. Symptom was basically: do a compile, lose most of your RAM until next reboot. Stopping WSL wouldn't reclaim it; nothing showed up in Task Manager, Process Explorer, etc. The RAM was just gone; unusable. Post a bug to WSL, was immediately asked if I had McAfee and if so to disable/uninstall. Problem solved. But, due to insurance reasons, I had to have an AV running, and powers that be decided Defender was sufficient. Never McAfee again. It's been a pile of crap for decades; no signs of it getting better, either.