I have a Surface Pro 8 running Windows 11 Pro. For employment reasons I had to install Norton 360 on it so I could work from home. I have WireGuard on it for my personal VPN usage, but I’ve found that when I turn on WireGuard (I’m running my own VPN via a Firewalla Gold on my personal network at home), Norton 360 disables all inbound and outbound traffic.
I do have admin privledges for Norton (I only had to install it and run it, my employer’s IT department let me have admin permissions for it since it’s my personal laptop). Any suggestions on how I can reconfigure Norton to get along with WireGuard?
The bad rap kaspersky got was due to detection of cia hack tools and methods. Hang with independent cyber security professionals who do testing and see what they say.
The russian part is false. However getting kaspersky for free isnt as straight forward.
Essentially people don’t know how the top av compares. Sophos and Malwarebytes premium not free. Sophos uses packages/network suites. Bitdefender uses more resources for different protection behaviour while kaspersky has better detection with less resourcess.
Essentially you first ask if you are paying and then pick from the comparison.
For the last time kaspersky has nothing to do with russia. They moved out of russia long ago and for mote than a decade were very good but only recently had free version
tell your company, do they want malware or not? the reason why its utter crap because norton is one of the AVs malware makers laugh at and easily compromise. The ability of malware to compromise AV and the lack of the AV to detect malware is a vulnerability. If they get ransomeware under norton norton isnt going to cover them for the losses, and audit may not be happy about it either and may fine the company. Might as well have had a good AV from the start. Windows defender enterprise is good too and far far better than norton with enterprise management features.
I understand your predicament, but where i used to work had the same problem, a different crappy av. i did complain though but they still didnt get the point. If you pay for an AV for the sake of having an AV that doesnt protect, you will still fail the audit if you end up with ransomware and will get fined and suffer massive losses. Hence better to just get decent protection from the start if you are paying for it. So many good enterprise choices. Dont want windows defender? theres sophos or malwarebytes premium. Even kaspersky has a good enterprise version if your laptops are all slow.
The cia stuff has been largely demonstrated to be false. The link between the founders of Kaspersky and the Russian government is a fact. Make of it what you want. Personally I don’t see the need of 3rd party AV and I’m okay to just use built in Defender without the extra bloat a certificates.