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BitDefender offer a free version. This works 24/7 when your PC is on with anti-virus protection, automatic definition updates and engine...

"Admins on the corporate network" is ok by me. As long as Deep State bureaucrats stay out out of it (that includes the Aus, UK, EU ones...

@pseymour For me, reading the article linked in the OP, this sentence rings possible alarm bells: By default, the firewall will deny...

Thanks garlin. A useful summary. ... if Secure Boot is used for booting Perhaps if sufficient numbers of people choose not to use SB...

pseymour : That will work until the certificate is revoked later on. Sometimes I'm so slow !! It has finally occurred to me that the...

@garlin Thanks for that reply. You've helped clarify the situation. I knew Secure Boot OFF would bypass Cert Authorities of course...

garlin (7:43am my time) wrote: The problem is any image that contains the legacy boot manager will fail on UEFI BIOS'es which have...

@hsehestedt Thanks for your post above 9.04am (in my timezone). This revocation/mitigation issue really is as messily dangerous as we...

Ghot said: If you're asking if there's any privacy... Probably not in any OS, any more. It's a very grey area. Basically, I agree with...

@glasskuter Yes. I resolved an issue of external HDD's, hub connected to a laptop, failing halfway through a long copy by using an...

An interesting thread. Still a long way to go, it seems. I said the following on another thread in more detail, but I tried an OS...

@CharlieDog I also have multiple HDs attached to a hub and then to the computer via USB-3 Perhaps just replace your hub with one that...

Perhaps should have added that I used Rufus to write the ISO to the boot USB disk, with all of Rufus' workarounds, and had the EUFI BIOS...

Using an ISO from UUP, I ran the "update setup" for 24H2 26100.268 on an i5 gen 8. No clean install, only the update overwriting...

@BamaInArk Thanks for your update comment. Looks promising in that nothing seemed to inhibit or break normal installation/running. I...