Thursday, December 22, 2016

Windows 8 Defender a CPU Killer

Worked on a Windows 8 machine today. CPU and disk were pegged at 98% and Defender's AntiMalware was much of it. After cleaning things up and scheduling Defender to run once a month, things got better, but anti-malware would still ramp up. So much for scheduling. Totally unacceptable. I don't have this activity on a Win 10 machine with Defender. It was not my laptop or I would have upgraded to Windows 7 from 8.

Installing Avast Free did the trick and it shut Defender off just the way it is supposed to do. I installed it on my Win 10 machine also just for good measure.

Magic Wormhole File Transfer With Rymdport

Magic Wormhole File Transfer With Rymdport   Why use Rymdport Magic Wormhole requires Python and is run in the Command Prompt. Rymdport is a...