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BetterRed · 03-30-2019, 03:35 AM

@stumped - AFAIK Defender and MWB take two different approaches to Ransomware protection, and both can peacefully coexist - well on my rigs they can

Since I switched to Win7 in late 2008 (couldn't wait to get off XP) I can't recall having any MS update related problems. Prior to that, problems such as you describe were legion of course.

I've also been running MS Security Essentials/Defender together with MWB Pro since then. IIRC Avast was the last of many AVs I used on XP - they were all nightmares. What I like about my current combination is that I hardly know they are there, both from an interrupt and a performance perspective. And, apart from an obscure weather gadget, I have never had to explicitly exclude any software or data from either of them.

Good grief I just realised I've been running MS AV and MWB together for more than a decade.

BR

03-30-2019, 03:35 AM	#9
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,547 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@stumped - AFAIK Defender and MWB take two different approaches to Ransomware protection, and both can peacefully coexist - well on my rigs they can Since I switched to Win7 in late 2008 (couldn't wait to get off XP) I can't recall having any MS update related problems. Prior to that, problems such as you describe were legion of course. I've also been running MS Security Essentials/Defender together with MWB Pro since then. IIRC Avast was the last of many AVs I used on XP - they were all nightmares. What I like about my current combination is that I hardly know they are there, both from an interrupt and a performance perspective. And, apart from an obscure weather gadget, I have never had to explicitly exclude any software or data from either of them. Good grief I just realised I've been running MS AV and MWB together for more than a decade. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-30-2019 at 03:38 AM.