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by hutzlibu 3074 days ago
Sure they do things - but they promise real security and protection - which is a laughable claim, when you look at detection statistics. They are not much better than defender. But unlike defender, they themselves act like spy/adware sometimes. Showing advertisement on the desktop etc. and communicating with the server a lot and not for updating.

Oh and my experience with most of their logs is, that they log and alert allmost everything - even when it is trivial as a tracking cookie - but make it look like a real threat to the ordinary user to show what good work they are doing. And especially on older computer really slow things down.

So I cannot recommend them and rather stress the importance of updates and not mindlessly install/click random things. (but with updates allmost everything important does that automatically now anyway)