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I agree completely. That’s why I opened this topic on the forum.

 

The new feature called “Email Protection” is different from the Anti-Spam feature.

Here is the link to their February Press Release:

https://www.bitdefender.com/news/bitdefender-launches-new-email-protection-capabilities-for-consumers.html

And here is the link to the FAQ section about Email Protection feature

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/91168/

Thanks for this starter list for investigation.

Perhaps I should have said more about what I use/value in the KIS product  —  safe money browser and digital keyboard, I use for all financial and sensitive web transactions; ability to keep away nearly all advertising, beacons, ‘web objects’, etc on websites; flags and deals with automatically compromised websites, files, and broad range of protections for firewall, mail and web and file antivirus; I just choose the level of safety I want (high); strips links from search engines of their search engine origin info; private browsing controls; application manager; interface I can use pretty easily. Decent user support by email, and occasionally by phone, with some persistence. I do not use password manager, vpn, or family controls. I will be looking for a replacement that has all the pieces I value.

Re Bitlocker: given the huge problems with the Bitlocker startup partitions, is there any reason to consider it at all? Dealing with those problems is way over my head, and I’ve been able to avoid having to deal with that.

I have windows 10 Pro; standalone home installation; Office 16 standalone installations. To the best of my knowledge, my only use of the cloud is for outlook, so I can read my email on my pc and my android phone. Everything is hardwired; Dell XPS computer. In case any of this is important for helping me to target a new alternative.

Thanks.

 

As one of those who has successfully used Kaspersky for years, it looks like I have to migrate to something else with due speed…prior to Kaspersky being unable to update its database. It would be really helpful if someone at Ask Woody et al could post some links to key articles or information on best alternatives to consider. It’s been several years since I last surveyed this landscape, and I could benefit from wisdom of those who could bring me up to speed efficiently.

thanks much

Ok, in light of new day .. I realize my ‘metered connection’ setting did not stop my computer from downloading and starting to install things. I will try one of the other proposed solutions. Thanks for your advice.

I believe I did follow the instructions…I did hide the update in wushowhide and confirmed that it was in the hidden updates panel. Then I went to “Repause windows update…” But when I did “repause,” the settings window froze and wouldn’t respond to any keystrokes or mouse gestures for several minutes.

The problem might be that I perhaps didn’t keep the wushowhide window open? I might have closed it. Not sure.

 

 

I tried to follow PK Cano instructions per #262332. With following results:

Turned metered connection on. Hit Resume Updates. Immediately lots of downloads started. At same time I initiated wushowhide, found …34441 and said to  hide it. I could see it as hidden. Then I quickly went back to WU settings and hit pause. At that point the WU Settings frame pretty much froze; restarted wushowhide and there was nothing to see on the hidden files section – it said I had nothing hidden. The WU settings frame froze for quite awhile, gave me a message that said it needed attention, but I couldn’t make it do anything. I also got error messages about web browser, which I was able to close after awhile. Finally the WU settings frame it woke up again, and I can see that I am able to extend the pause period through February 15, which I did. That was all a bit too exciting for me.

I am kind of nervous about unpausing again, since I can’t see my hidden update listed in wushuhide. At this point, I think my best bet is to just keep the delay until February. And hope that this mess is resolved by then. Do you see any downsides to this strategy.

 

 

That is helpful information. Now, if I un-pause Windows Update, will I have a chance to block KB5034441 before it downloads and installs it? (Assuming I do not immediately hit check for updates now.)

Question about blocking this Windows 10 update… My machine is set to download and install updates, and is now delayed until Jan 16th. (last available date, as I was delaying the Dec updates). If I want to use one of the tools (Wushowhide.diagcab or Windows Update Minitool) will it go ahead and search for updates despite my having set a pause until Jan 16th? If I have to remove the pause, how do I keep it from immediately going out and downloading/installing the one update I am trying to block?

Thanks very much.