// Windows Hardening //

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Anons, are there any good hardening guides for Windows 7 or 10 for desktop machines?

I need to setup a nice and secure Windows System for graphic related work. I tried OSX for an half year, but it is pure shit. I hate the interface and just everything else about it. It is not the same like it was a few years ago. I rather install Windows again after nerding out the last 6 years on Linux.

I just looked into the current AV solutions and I think Bitdefender is considered the best on the site with Kaspersky. Although Bitdefender seems to be much better performance wise.

So what do you Windows users do for your security?

in before: AVs are snailoil, use brain.exe its the best, you don't need any AV. And thats where most people are retarded.

I hate all the people who say "I didnt had any AV for years and I never had a trojan/rootkit/virus"

The funny thing is, how would these people even ever know it, if they never scanned their PC?

Even if you don't download from unknown sources and dont open shitty emails and whatever.

You can always get pwned by some 0day. Every day. And you will not even notice it. And ypu don't even have to have Flash/Java for that installed.

So an AV like Bitdefender/Kaspersky is not a bad thing, computers these days have enough RAM for this stuff.

Of course you should disable Flash/Java as the first step.

My question is, where do I find some good Windows hardening information? Are there any subreddits for it?