+ AA6YQ comments below
I can't help noticing you recommend using other than Microsoft's products for anti-malware.
From a security standpoint this may be true (I don't have the expertise to judge) but in the past four years I have only had one single case of false positives and one performance related issue (which was easily solved using a manual exception) using the firewall and anti-malware built into Windows 10 with ham radio software.
On this and other reflectors I frequently see fellow hams suffering from false positives, performance etc. with non-Microsoft anti-malware products.
So, at least in my particular case, I have been more happy (and spent far less money) relying on Microsoft also in this area also.
+ Over the past ~2 weeks, there has been a marked upswing in false positives in Microsoft anti-malware applications, accompanied by the autonomous removal of DXLab executables. To the extent that ops respond to these as recommended in
+ this would be harmless, but a serious diagnosis coming from a previously trustworthy Microsoft application has stampeded several ops into over-reacting. Several are now re-installing Windows on their C: drives.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
