I fully concur.
After decades of managing work machines, and helping family with their
personal machines, short of a Linux migration, my #2 recommendation
would be to uninstall any except the built-in Windows Defender, set it
to run unobtrusive scans at sane times, and to set some good firewall
rules. (which should also be done on Linux systems)
Also, don't click any and every link in an e-mail or on a webpage. Don't
use the same simple password everywhere, especially not for both a web
account *and* the e-mail tied to it. Be discerning about where you
source your apps. Folks are entirely too trusting of others they have
not, and never will, meet. "Pay attention to what you are doing" is the
most effective, yet underrated and even undermentioned security advice
possible.
The above admonitions should cover just about every threat, mobile or
desktop, because those threats are designed to exploit you not heeding
one or more of them.
Regards,
Adrien
p.s. - bonus: use a forked Mozilla-based browser (such as Waterfox or
Librewolfe, etc.) and install uBlock-origin on it. Take a few minutes to
set some agressive filters. Get used to not viewing a webpage if you get
a warning it is a known spammer or malware host. That's the point!
And yes, you can now install uBlock-origin-lite on mobile devices.
On 1/18/26 11:47 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
I don't (and never have) used MS-Windows, but videos I've seen on YouTube
suggest that most add-on antivirus software for *recent* versions of
MS-Windows are a waste of money. "Windows Defender" (which is build in to
revent versions of MS-Windows) does everything any MS-Windows user needs.
Almost all malware these days are phishing E-Mail and depend on esentially
socially engineering to get the user to visit some website to trick the user
into revealing login credintials. Malware writers generally don't bother much
with the clasic forms of malware these days. And yes, Windows Defender will
probably flag legit versions of GnuCash, since GnuCash is not "signed" by a
Microsoft supplied certificate. You will have to "whitelist" (whatever that
entails) GnuCash.
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