Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:12 am
an AV should be last line of defense.
Defense should be layered and your AV should not be relied upon.
These are the layers I use at home:
first have two accounts on the machine, regular user account for general use and then an admin account for everything admin related. I use myname for the regular user account and then myname-admin for the admin account. Then UAC will prompt for the admin account password. The admin account should be a non-microsoft local only account.
This is also handy for troubleshooting where your user account is borked.
opendns or 9.9.9.9 for your dns. (any curated dns will work but I prefer these 2. Opendns works best for kids.)
firefox version 57 or later (reworked browser designed with more security in mind)
ublocker origin
malwarebytes anti-exploit beta
Regular windows firewall and windows defender, BUT I'm also behind a good router with nat and ipv4 only.
If you have kids on windows machine then setup family safety and opendns.
There you go everything free and a multi-layered approach to security!
Main machine: Core I7 -2600K @ 4.0Ghz / 16 gig ram / Radeon RX 580 8gb / 500gb toshiba ssd / 5tb hd
Old machine: Core 2 quad Q6600 @ 3ghz / 8 gig ram / Radeon 7870 / 240 gb PNY ssd / 1tb HD