Hi Windows folks. I’m setting up a new laptop for a family member and it’ll have to be Windows 11. The salesperson at the store obviously wanted to upsell us their security software, but I told him we’d just use Defender.
Is that still the go-to? Back in the day I used Malwarebytes, is that any good these days?
Any other debloat tips for Windows I might want to know? Thanks gang!
It’s good. I wouldn’t spend any money on a third party AV product outside of enterprise solutions when there’s a bundle of factors at play. There’s some settings you can poke to make it more restrictive.
Running “debloat” scripts and the like, depending on what it does, can turn it off or otherwise neutralize it.