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Originally Posted by danwdoo
Quite. I've been comfortably using network trace tools for many years. Again, updates and safe browsing practices (and running as a non-admin user!) mitigate the overwhelming majority of issues. I'm not saying Defender is the only or best choice, just that Norton is a poor one based on system performance hits (not effectiveness). Also many "Windows" problems can be traced to AV software such as Norton (and some others) that try to do to much and insert themselves into too many functions of the OS. As stated earlier, why trust software that can't even uninstall itself properly half the time?
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OK, most of the time when people say this, they just mean they don't have any obvious adware, and don't understand anything about modern viruses. Sounds like you get it
That said, some AV is a necessity now though, and Defender is terrible now (I stand by this as pretty much all third-party tests show it sucks now).
I had the problem some others have complained about looping updates failing to install, did some googling, found the fix here:
https://superuser.com/questions/9483...4bc2feb37492a7
When I first installed, it assigned my microsoft a short username ("green"). I ended up creating a local account, deleting the first account, and then linking my ms account, to fix the (IMO) broken username.
Apparently the update is hiccuping on the SID of the first username still in the registry. Removed and all installed as normal.
So if you've removed any users in the control panel / user account control area and you're having the update failure problem, try this fix.