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Recently one of my co-workers sent me this article (archive.is). He asked: What do you think of his assessment that VPNs are worthless and you are better off with HTTP Anywhere, etc? That’s not going to be a quick answer. Just before a promotion for a commercial VPN service, the author says: VPN services don’t make you…
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I’m a regular listener to TWiT’s Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. On a recent podcast Steve mentioned AV-Comparatives‘ anti-virus testing. If you’re a regular reader of this blog you also know I’m a fan of Windows Defender. AV-Comparatives’ September 2018 test (PDF) showed that Windows Defender was in the very top performers. Steve’s assessment was: Given that Microsoft is one of the 6…
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tl;dr What should you do? First, I’m moderately aggressive in applying updates across a variety of systems and I’ve not had any problems. Second, look at Woody Leonard’s post on ComputerWorld. There’s some hyperbole there but overall not bad advice. So here’s the background… Microsoft has had a bad month with Windows 10. They’ve had problems with Display Audio issues (jpeg), file deletions (archive.is), HP…