Tried to get to Q posts on my wife's laptop and get this...common?
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Same as above, can you elaborate? (From genuine curiosity, not trying a setup)
My grandma paid fir an antivirus subscription. It wiped her computer and messed up her user accounts. I spent y hours trying to fix it but only got it partially back.
My mom bought a ‘cleaner’ program. Slowed her computer down to brick status.
I never recommend third party.
There isn't much to elaborate on. By installing any antivirus software, you have just handed over access to every file on that machine - to some randoms from a company you'll never meet. You are then also leaving it up to the software to decide what is a virus and what isn't. Windows is nothing but bloat/spyware anyway...... just look at all that pointless telemetry happening in the background and how it is using your PC to help the folks across the street download their Windows Updates ;) . I use Windows10 LTSC and just kill everything I don't need permanently from install with group policy editor or PowerShell scripts.......including Windows Defender.
Ok, I get what you're saying. Installing a third party virus scanner is something like installing a trojan horse where we can only presume that it is preventing viruses. Not quite what I was thinking, but this does make sense.
My understanding is that, unless you have the 'corporate' version of windows 10 (like what they sell to hospitals so that they aren't violating privacy laws) that the OS itself is constantly sending stuff to MS.
Yeah you've almost got it there fren, I'm using a tweaked version of the Windows 10 OS that they use in kiosks, medical equipment, industrial equipment, digital signage etc. Windows will always be trying to do sneaky things, but less so on Windows 10 LTSC as there is less bloat. With a few tweaks - it's fairly useable.