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I've been using Windows Defender for a while now, but notices it doesn't actually do anything with e-mail that comes in unless I open the attachments (which I don't). But I get tons of these stupid email and other spam. So I was looking for something slightly better than the standard.
I looked and trialled a variety of suites now;
- Bitdefender 2015: didn't install, then I had to do a manual install, then the CPU were going high. Don't understand why it is so well regarded
- Kaspersky 2015: generally ok, but update mechanism seems to be blocked by OpenDNS filtering which concerns me and I'm already on my limit of whitelisting sites.
- AVG: really don't like how it messes about the browser search and safebrowsing. It causes all sorts of interventions
I'm rapidly remembering my pet hate about windows and the intrusive security suites. So far Defender is the least intrusive, but it doesn't provide email protection that I can see.
Has anyone got any recommendations? I don't like to tinker, and to me this should be unobtrusive and just run and do its job in realtime for on-access, web, email at the very least.
I looked and trialled a variety of suites now;
- Bitdefender 2015: didn't install, then I had to do a manual install, then the CPU were going high. Don't understand why it is so well regarded
- Kaspersky 2015: generally ok, but update mechanism seems to be blocked by OpenDNS filtering which concerns me and I'm already on my limit of whitelisting sites.
- AVG: really don't like how it messes about the browser search and safebrowsing. It causes all sorts of interventions
I'm rapidly remembering my pet hate about windows and the intrusive security suites. So far Defender is the least intrusive, but it doesn't provide email protection that I can see.
Has anyone got any recommendations? I don't like to tinker, and to me this should be unobtrusive and just run and do its job in realtime for on-access, web, email at the very least.