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What are anti-virus/malware/etc recommendations for Windows editing PC?

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Subject line pretty much sums it up.

My editing rig can see the Internet and I don't want that to change. I am currently running Windows 8.1 Pro and using Windows Defender and Windows firewall, but have an interest to be better protected. It seem the threats out there are getting nastier as time goes on.

Requirements:
  • I don't want anything that's going to impede video editing performance
  • Cost is probably not an issue
  • I'd prefer to go with a single company's solution(s), but that is not a hard requirement if there is a compelling reason not to
  • I would consider an expensive hardware firewall appliance too

Thanks in advance!

Jim
 
Give us more info about your Internet activity on this machine. If you're not actually pulling any files from the Internet apart from system updates, you are fine with what you have, though it won't block malicious Internet content, should you stumble across something.
 
Regarding Internet activity, I don't do any sketchy surfing, but I do: surf, attend Webinars, allow tech. support onto my PC (i.e. Netgear Firewall / Router troubleshooting recently), and make purchases (mostly Amazon and Newegg, but others too).
 
abstinence is the only solution. outside of that any software you run to "protect you" is going to slow your system down more than you can afford. keep your workstations clean imho.. if you cant, then only do minimal surfing. keep all of your private stuff (banking, social media, shopping, googling, emails) all on another machine totally.. the worst is facebook.. stay off facebook on workstations.
 
Karim D. Ghantous said:
I agree with Tim: keep your editing computer separate from your general purpose computer. Keep it off the network.
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or if on the same network, mayhaps on a different subnet or router/switch completely
 
To be honest, the only times where I got an security warnings were :

- On clients HDD, the few times they are not brand new.
- On client mails (and this is upseting)

As a user, as long as you don't click anywhere you should not click, and don't visit sketchy websites... You're ok with any. This is a workstation after all.
I personnally use Avast, it's light and efficient. Not the best for actual cure though, but quarantine and deletion of any infected files should be normal.

It's also important to separate your work mails from your personnal mails. I have 4 accounts, personnal, work, payment and thrash.
Use thrash for registering on any website, facebook or anything. I bet mine is full of unwanted mail subscriptions, notifications, fraudulent email... But hey, I didn't open mine for a few years ! it's trash ! And nobody have to know that address. If they know it, they are not to be trust.

Payment for payments or any invoicing, separate from the other mails with more informations about you. I also keep on that mail plug in registrations, and any paid subscription like Adobe account.

That way, personnal and work mail can be used to actually chat with friends and clients.
Set a scan on each USB insert can be useful too.
 
If resources on your workstation are an issue, then a firewall like a Barracuda security appliance would be ideal, but much more costly than an AV. I've always found Kaspersky, Norton and Mccafe to be resource hogs from personal experience. Bitdefender, Eset etc. are low resource consuming.

If you're talking about multiple installs across a business, endpoint protection is the new in-thing, if you aren't using an appliance.

I'm a Barracuda vendor if you'd like to talk about pricing and doing a free 30-day trial on an appliance. In all honesty $50 for AV is probably a better deal unless you want to fork out thousand+ for a firewall appliance.
 
I don't use any 3rd party products. The default stuff in Windows 10 works. As others point out, stay away from sketchy websites and avoid opening emails that will make you rich or have pictures of Anna Kournikova and you should be good. :)

Even open source stuff can be dangerous. There are a couple of websites that produce daily builds of x.265, an open source HEVC encoder. One is great and the other has a virus embedded in the download and Windows Defender catches the bad download.
 
Agree with Stacey here. We don't bother with third-party products anymore these days. Most of those have become poorly managed bloat-ware. I limit web surfing and email to a few select systems. I actually do 90% of my email on my iPad Pro. The best defense against all the malware and viruses is to just think before you click.
 
Orig. post on 10-09-2016
Subject line pretty much sums it up - What are anti-virus/malware/etc. recommendations for Windows editing PC?
My editing rig can see the Internet and I don't want that to change. I am currently running Windows 8.1 Pro and using Windows Defender and Windows firewall, but have an interest to be better protected. It seem the threats out there are getting nastier as time goes on.
Requirements:
•I don't want anything that's going to impede video editing performance
•Cost is probably not an issue
•I'd prefer to go with a single company's solution(s), but that is not a hard requirement if there is a compelling reason not to
•I would consider an expensive hardware firewall appliance too
Thanks in advance!
Jim
Added this on 10-10-2016:
Regarding Internet activity, I don't do any sketchy surfing, but I do: surf, attend Webinars, allow tech. support onto my PC (i.e. Netgear Firewall / Router troubleshooting recently), and make purchases (mostly Amazon and Newegg, but others too).
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Thanks everyone for your replies.

In summary, the theme here was don't add software solutions to editing PCS and be careful.

However, as I put in my original post and Oct 10 update, I did want some additional protection and prefer not to isolate my edit PC from the Internet (aka suggestions to isolate). In the end I did some research on the web and chose a serious subscription aided "new generation" firewall -- a Meraki MX64 (Meraki is owned by Cisco) with "Advanced" software. I've only been using it for a few days, but that's enough to report it's pretty awesome!

Bottom line stats:
- about 1 hour to do initial setup and about 2 more hours of support assistance and exploring features during first week of use (two hours spread out over a week)
- I simply love the "add blocking" capabilities of this thing (Content filtering from BrightCloud database for malware, spyware, Adware, Web Advertisements, Phishing, etc.)
- Web surfing is soooo much faster now with all the ad-crapola blocked (some sites are populating about 5 times faster now)
- approx. $275/year (ref. MX64 hardware from eBay with lifetime wtty., 5yr Adv. subscription from Provantage); yes, it is expensive

Regards,

Jim
 
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