Virus protection

[arachnaut]

If you click the wizard, you will get the 'Use Recommended Settings' selector. That sets a default group of program settings: Office, IE, Java, Reader, Acrobat, etc.

Then look at the details and you will see that not every one of these has all the mitigation strategies selected.

When you right-click on a running process that is not being monitored and enable the configuration, it starts off with most, but not, things selected.

I don't know why all the mitigations are not selected by default - maybe there is something that a lot of programs do that might trip it. I haven't read what each of these mitigation strategies does in detail.

 

[visruth]

Okay Jim, I'll try configuring. Have to sort out which all I need with all mitigations. Thanks for your quick & helpful response, really appreciate it!

 

[visruth]

Most of the apps connecting with internet have been added & configured,
Read through this useful article and it turned out to be a good one , helped a lot - http://hardenwindows8forsecurity.com/Harden Windows 8.1 64bit Home.html

 

[genet]

Removing admin rights mitigates 97% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities

If you already have Windows 8/8.1 installed, how to change your current user account from an administrator account to a standard account? -> link