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Thread #173659   Message #4211449
Posted By: DaveRo
11-Nov-24 - 09:29 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Combining computer security programs?
Subject: RE: Tech: Combining computer security programs?
I don't know whether crowdstrike used an official MS-provided interface or whether it just interfered with Windows. I suspect, but don't know, that MS allows such products to work - rather than locking them out - for commercial reasons. But Windows uses a publicly available boot procedure (EFI) - which Macs do not.

Wirecutter in 2020 quotes Brian Krebs: "You Don’t Need to Buy Antivirus Software":
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/best-antivirus/
But the Krebs article referred to was from 2012:
Tools for a Safer PC
And this is interesting - but from 2010:
Anti-virus Products Mostly Ignore Windows Security Features
What's the situation in 2024?