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On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:36 AM Bj?rn Ekelund, SM7IUN <bjorn@...> wrote:

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.

This matches my experience with W10. The only other time Windows
Defender has tripped was with JT-Alert. Since I'm not as familiar
with the "production facilities" of that package like I am with DXLab,
I elected to live without the software rather than trying to figure
out if it was a false alarm or a legit threat. When it tripped again
this week on Commander, that was a different story - no Commander
would mean, basically, no ham radio. :-)

I did post here right at the beginning of the flood and it was
immediately apparent that either Commander was infected with a
non-COVID-19 virus or there was a problem with Windows Defender.
Clearly, it's the latter. The virus checker checker Dave posted at
this link quickly made that clear:


Before "fixing" Commander, I did back up my TQSL certs and my log as
well as saving the registry settings for all DXLab components to my
Dropbox account. Log and TQSL backups are regular (actually, the log
is backed up whenever I run DXKeeper) but the registry stuff isn't
done by me frequently enough.

What's most annoying is that Defender's MO seems to have changed. I
never had the opportunity to white-list Commander, manually quarantine
it, or anything, even though that's part of that program. Defender
just "took it away". Googling around, I couldn't even figure out
where its quarantine directory is.

Still, I have no intention of simply marking favored programs as "OK"
preemptively. That's no way to run a railroad. And I have no plans
to buy software to do Defender's job.


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