Question on Windows Defender, saw on a site that Windows Defender/MSE is baseline protection only now, read on another forum a while back--that if using Internet explorer use another Antivirus, so then I switched to Avast free 8.0.1489, but that possibly messes with Sleep mode in Windows 8 Pro 64bit, one day I set it for Monitor sleep in 10 minutes, PC to sleep in 45 minutes, come back next morning and PC is wide awake...did send in a support ticket with Avast as well, but haven't heard nothing yet
What I typically do on this PC is Game, listen to music, (streaming audio usually, or one of my bought albums, hardly get any music illegally anymore--as I learned that is not right to do)
Guess im mainly looking for if Windows Defender/MSE safe to use still or should I stick with Avast for all machines
not anymore. Firefox & Chrome are recently blocking access to this site as they're generating "ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" messages. site is no longer functional
Who is that for? Because everybody else reads that and understands it's an objectively stupid comment. Knife crime is an issue and has been for literal decades and it's exhausting listening to fools make stupid comments pretending that nothing is being done to address it. Your comments are not persuading anybody that the reality we know to exist does not, all it does is expose that you are a weak minded individual parroting the same tired talking points, talking points so obviously false all they do is reveal you to be totally disingenuous because you obviously don't believe it either. All comments like that do typically is serve to virtue signal to others that you know the team lingo, they don't impress, they don't stimulate debate. They just signal: I'm one of those people!
MVS subscribers got the proper 26200.8655 Win11 25H2 ISO downloads as of 6/16/2026 avoiding this whole MCT fiasco by MS. I'll obtain the official 8655 MVS ISO download instead.
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Question on Windows Defender, saw on a site that Windows Defender/MSE is baseline protection only now, read on another forum a while back--that if using Internet explorer use another Antivirus, so then I switched to Avast free 8.0.1489, but that possibly messes with Sleep mode in Windows 8 Pro 64bit, one day I set it for Monitor sleep in 10 minutes, PC to sleep in 45 minutes, come back next morning and PC is wide awake...did send in a support ticket with Avast as well, but haven't heard nothing yet
What I typically do on this PC is Game, listen to music, (streaming audio usually, or one of my bought albums, hardly get any music illegally anymore--as I learned that is not right to do)
Guess im mainly looking for if Windows Defender/MSE safe to use still or should I stick with Avast for all machines
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