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What antivirus and EDR do you use?

Leisher wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 4:48 pm What antivirus and EDR do you use?

All of them? That's how it feels.

BitDefender. Huntress. Some kinda of DNSAgent.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 3:24 pm This machine will get a lot slower when work puts its antivirus, EDR, DNS filtering, etc crap back on it.

Don't let them!

Can't entirely fault you for not knowing a reload always speeds things up if you get free regular new laptops. Also, it's more of a windows 3.1 and up trick. It's always been like that.

Oh, the other thing that will slow it down is catching back up on windows updates, unfortunately. But you should still see a decent net speed gain.

Once they throw their crap back on, it won't matter. That's the real culprit. I went through this a year ago with the same laptop.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 5:28 pm BitDefender. Huntress. Some kinda of DNSAgent.

We use Trend Micro (well known for not being a resource hog) and Sentinel One. We get no reports of PCs slowing down. We also have Darktrace on our network.

Maybe hint to your team that the solutions they're using have too much of a negative impact on performance?

Leisher wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 5:51 pm Maybe hint to your team that the solutions they're using have too much of a negative impact on performance?

It's serivceable. Just not ideal.

This powershell script to declutter any fresh install.

https://www.xda-developers.com/this-pow ... s-install/

SInce it's topical.

Added the Javascript toggle to my browser at work.

I love archive.is/, but this toggle makes getting to articles that much faster.

It turns the paywalls off.

Leisher wrote: ↑Tue Oct 14, 2025 9:12 amJavascript

Do tell?

Chrome browser.

Search the Google store for Javascript. You'll find the toggle extension.

Install it.

Hit a paywall? Hit the toggle.

Just remember to turn it off as it breaks other pages like this one. Well, you can read, you just can't use the buttons when posting.

Leisher wrote: ↑Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:31 am Chrome browser.

Search the Google store for Javascript. You'll find the toggle extension.

Install it.

Hit a paywall? Hit the toggle.

Just remember to turn it off as it breaks other pages like this one. Well, you can read, you just can't use the buttons when posting.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... xt_sidebar This one I assume?

Oh wow, that's like magic.