An update. Two days ago I had a chance to talk to our offsite IT person who handles our network. If anybody wants to know, this is who they are:

http://vanishingclouds.com/

I explained what I'm doing at home and asked him what he thought about the different AV suites.

He said none of them because they're all after-the-fact security meaning new crap comes out all the time and they can't stop it until it's been discovered and they come up with a fix for it. Then he rattled on about browser extensions and a bunch of stuff that made my eyes glaze over.

He asked what OS I'm using and I said Win 10 Pro. He said great, if I was using 7, 8 or even 10 Home he would tell me to upgrade to 10 Pro because Win 10 is far better at security than those are. He also said I should start using Edge exclusively for web browsing for the same reason.

He knows all about IE, FF and Chrome but he's focused on enterprise security and says that's what Microsoft specializes in. For security Edge is better. He's not concerned with download speeds, convenience or different features, just security.

He said to forget all the commercial AV software and go with whitelisting. Sounds complicated but he said it's not that difficult once it's set up. Easy for him to say...He's going to send me some instructions for it and I'll post more on this later.

Whadday'all think?

Bob

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