But for a home user you need non of what you mentioned. Even more today with win 10, it’s pretty locked down out of the box. (aside form it’s constant connection to the mother ship).
Or better yet, use chrome os, seems to be the old mac type of affair. Not enough users to make it worth while to attack. Though the big G, has the same grip on the os as MS do with 10.
Today I think we should be looking more at mobile os and securing those, as both Android and ios, have big markets. Android now has more active devices than windows. I think it wad about two months ago that milestone was announced.
The worry with phone os, and the way we use it today, is how much it can we k your life if hacked. Especially financially.
I do love listening to Steve Gibson security now pod cast. Honestly the guy is that clever in the subject, I understand probably 20% of what he says, but I do listen to his conclusions and take them on board.
I’m not sure he has give up xp either. But he is clued up enough to do that if he wishes, us mortals sadly arnt.
A case of do as I say, not as I do.
Probably the same with AV, if you’re careful enough, people like Steve Gibson and leo Laporte often talk off air (you get to see behind the scenes if you watch live) about not using an AV at all. The caveat is today the av doesn’t take up valuable cpu power like it historically did. They say they don’t use avs and never get in trouble. But they don’t advertise or re one it. Now with 10 I don’t think you can go ‘bareback’ anymore, having to have ms turned on, or something in its place.
Ive never needed an av outside of ms security essentials / defender, before that I used avast I think, only cos uni made us all use that. Iirc I used avg to before.
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