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greenknight

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  • Birthday 03/20/1956

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    In the shadow of Mt. St. Helens
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    Too many to list - I'm a Renaissance man, though FOSS testing is perhaps most relevant here.
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    United States
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    Windows 10 Home x64

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  1. Thursday, I got 2 emails purporting to be from Lunarsoft Forums, saying my account had been locked for security reasons, due to failed login attempts from London and Finland, respectively. They had links to secure my account and change my password. I assumed these were phishing emails, came here and logged in with no problem. I need to change my Yahoo password, actually. I was a little slow dealing with this, been busy trying to migrate my dual-boot setup to an SSD, and convert from MBR to GPT in the process. Thought if I just deleted Linux Mint and installed the latest version after Windows was up and running it would be easy... wrong! Almost there now, though - I'll tell you all about it when I'm done. Spence
  2. WD scans are working. It's not automatic, it notifies you that it needs to run a scan, click in the notification and it runs. It's doing it every day, apparently that's the default.
  3. WD periodic scanning turned itself back off,but today it's back on again. Yesterday it wouldn't stay on unless I disabled Avira, the icon was still in the system tray but hover gave a tooltip that said it was turned off. Turn it back on, it would turn off again after a short time. I was able to update it - it wasn't auto-updating - and start an on-demand scan, but it shut down before it completed. Disabled Avira, then I was able to complete a scan. Then tried to do a startup scan, another feature it has, but that failed. But today, as I said, it's back on, and it's staying on. But how to schedule scans? There's no clue - but a quick search revealed you have to use the Task Scheduler for that. It sounds like there's some sort of default scanning plan, but no hint what that is exactly - https://www.bing.com/search?q=windows+defender+scheduled+scans&form=EDGEAR&qs=AS&cvid=0e72f3fbe59e4f348335b99df494a72a&pq=windows defender scheduled scans Much as I despise the Windows Task Scheduler, I managed to do it. I've set up weekly scans, starting tonight - we'll see if they work. I think it's more trouble than it's worth. I forgot to mention, I use the built-in firewall but I use a program to provide a UI for it and harden it's settings, called Windows Firewall Notifier. MajorGeeks has a few of these type programs, but this is the one I found I liked best. The current Windows firewall works well enough, but there's no reasonable way to control it. This program fixes that and is very lightweight.
  4. Linux Mint also has an Xfce edition, for one lightweight alternative. Antergos does look interesting. I looked at Arch, decided it was too much effort, but it sounds like Antergos overcomes that. Might try that out, too. Nice thing about Linux, you don't have to install it to try it out. A big advantage for Arch and its variants is that it's rolling release, it updates continuously. You never have to install a new version to be up to date, which saves a lot of time and effort.
  5. I use Avira, have for several years. It's pretty lightweight, and it's the most trouble-free AV I've used. Ranks high in AV Comparatives' tests. Windows Defender has limited periodic scanning available with the AV installed, to turn WD on fully would require uninstalling Avira. I have had WD scans disabled because I thought it a waste of resources, but I'm giving it another try now. I'll let you know how it goes.
  6. I want to break Cortana - how do I get it to do that?
  7. Here's the latest protection test, they don't come off so well - http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/avc_prot_2016a_en.pdf In the latest file detection test, they do even worse - http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/avc_fdt_201603_en.pdf
  8. In AV-Comparatives' tests, Sophos didn't do very well. I'm still happy with Avira. It remains among the top performers, and not bloated - they keep adding new features, but they're optional to install.
  9. You're armed with knowledge and caution, tools many people are unable or unwilling to get, and they require some effort. AV is not an adequate substitute for them, unfortunately.
  10. AV has never been more than just one weapon in your security arsenal, anyone that thought it made you safe online by itself was a fool. As for Norton, I can't understand why it's still popular - people just not paying attention?
  11. Ditched Norton years ago, wouldn't touch any if their products with a 10 ft pole. A lot of people bought the story that they were so much better now - suckers!
  12. No doubt that was the problem. Another reason to do a clean install, if you don't have lots of extra HD space. I just did some research and found out you can remove those recovery files with the Disk Cleanup utility, just select clean up system files. You lose the option to roll back then, of course.
  13. By all accounts, clean installs generally go smoothly. Glad to hear yours went well. One other thing I should mention, for anyone else who's making the move - it takes up quite a bit more space than Win 7. For my Win 7 install, I created a 50GB system partition and a large data partition, and that was fine - plenty of room. Updated to Win 10, and it filled the system partition right up - not enough space left for defragging, before there were even any updates. I expanded the partition to 75GB, and that has proved to be barely enough - I wish I'd gone a bit larger.
  14. I did on my desktop, it was a pain. The update process was glitchy, I should have gone the clean install route. Once it was finally installed, it was messed up - opening to the Start menu instead of the desktop (I hate the new Start menu, too), and no desktop shortcuts when I finally got it to display. Eventually figured out it had switched to Tablet Mode and got that corrected. Worse problem was it broke my dual boot setup, Linux Mint wouldn't open, Couldn't even locate its files from the live disc. Win 10 had created a new recovery partition when I was already at the limit for primary partitions, so my Linux system partition was now seen as unallocated space. Nothing for it but to re-install Mint, after revising the partition setup (still have my Puppy disc with GParted on it, so the tools were at hand). Any performance improvement is minor, and it was a big hassle - most of which could have been avoided if Microsoft had provided a warning about the partition thing.
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