@futurebird Mum is using my old gaming rig that's still snappy for her needs with windows 7 and a firewall that was set up to paranoid by me while I was using it - to ask to run any thing it doesn't recognize. This means everything, even its own executables. Every windows feature. Any script that tries to run. Annoying as hell for about half a year, but after the updates stop coming (win 7), this too stops. Anything that tries to run now and isn't recognized is an attack. I told her to let Firefox updates through and click no on everything else lol. No viruses.

...too bad I can't set Comodo to paranoid on Win 11 because then it won't let the system itself start, black screen, reinstall. I'm sure it's on to something with that, lol, but I still want to run that shit

On normal mode it sometimes kills explorer for me and then I have to re-enable it... Let's not talk about task manager they hate each other. Which just tells me that Win11 does sneak updates that it's not telling me about, because Comodo blocks applications that change, even if they were enabled before, and this means Windows is sneak changing without an "update" pretty much daily, sometimes twice a day.

Yes, did this dance on fresh install, presumably not a virus then.

@futurebird Right now I have almost every auto update in both computer and mobile disabled because they can just brick whatever they want. And I did have a phone bricked after about 2 years, where after an update it suddenly took ten times the original to even open apps on it. Not falling for that shit again. I'm less likely to be hacked than be fucked by the original developers at this point, and not because hackers are laying idle...