In all fairness to all vendors the difficulty comes from the sheer scale of HW vendors and a handful of OS vendors. Now through in bad- and state-actors and you have troubles. I received vulnerability

Oh yes, I am familiar. Hopefully Santa will bring me one more raspberry pi for Christmas. So excited to try. Regards, Dale Smith 425-686-9304 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dalegsmith KJ7GHU To

Microsoft spends most of the security research dollars in hardening APIs and protocols, not protecting users against their own bad choices which is how most viruses get on systems. People will click

A quick and easy fix stopping ad tracking and more is to install a pi-hole. https://pi-hole.net/ M Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android

Howard, I have about 10 rolls of coax seal if you want one.

I use Norton 360 and VPN. For VPN you can use Proton VPN which comes with Proton mail. Mozilla is offering VPN services as well. I like VPN as it masks many things – not of them are nefarious

Microsoft spends more money because they have to. Most malware is aimed at their OS. I'm not in the tech industry for many years, but I've run windows since it came on floppies. Microsoft is a target

Microsoft spends more money on security research and overal threat analysis than most security companies combined. But what do I know as someone working in the software security industry closely

Defender is ok. It has some areas where it's lacking. Here's some good info on it. https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/windows-defender I personally wouldn't use only Defender. Maybe with some

Statistics would not agree with your assertion.

That's pretty funny. You meant that to be funny, right? Microsoft is the *reason* you need antiviral software.

There is one company that depends on your computer being free of viruses, etc., and that’s Microsoft. I’ve been using Microsoft Defender on all our computers (home and work) for many years, no

Windows Defender is pretty awesome and free. As good, if not better than most commercial products Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android

You should use either "Coax-Seal" which goes on like a tape but is moldable like a putty to seal it good, or you can use self-bonding silicone tape. If it's an antenna connection I leave it at that.

I was wondering if there was a silicone or similar substance that one would use on the coax feedline into the antenna to provide additional weather sealant along with rubber taping the connection? --

Free is just the same for antiviral. The paid version adds tools.

The paid or free version of Avast? -- Thanks, Rowland

I'm biased since I work at CrowdStrike, but that's an enterprise solution and expensive (though we are the best, of course). For ease of use with good protection I recommend Bitdefender. that's what

Once again, I’ll apologize for missing another event but I have my CW Academy session every Thursday. Only one more year to go... .-.. —- .-..

100% ditto to what Robin said. I had a really nice time at our online social gathering. Thanks for the fun time and great conversation! This was an antenna weekend – got my Hexbeam assembled and