Hey Guys,
Has anyone used configuredefender or defenderui before?
They seems to harden windows defender to be better so you do not need a 3rd part AV.
I would not use anything like this that’s not FOSS or atleast OSS. Trust and transparency is key.
The website looks and feels sketchy. I would not trust this tool.
Windows Defender works just fine by itself.
Make sure to practice basic common sense (such as not downloading or running random .exe files from shady websites)
Both are nice tools to bring some enterprise options to “home” windows defender. There are other forums on the web, dedicated to cybersecurity recommending this tools for a hardening approch for a first party software, mitigating the need to look out for other third-party solutions. (BTW the web filtering using windows defender only works in conjunction with edge (smartscreen).
this actually comes with this and its pretty usefull:
So would you recommend I just use the regular settings rather than a program that controls the regular settings?
I think he did and that’s what I can recommend, too. Windows defender really isn’t that hard to configure. Beerisgood (on github) has quite good guides on configuring windows for privacy and/or security. That together with the official windows documentation and you should be able to figure out what each setting does, and what the security and privacy implications of enabling/disabling certain settings are.
Thank you for the response. I did see that on beerisgood they recommend hotcakex’s harden-windows-security module. Maybe I will take a look at that too. It’s right before requirements section on the beerisgood GitHub page
Personally I wouldn’t use a third party script, since it’s not that hard to do it manually and reading through a script to see exactly what it does likely is more work than just using documentation and doing it yourself.
That makes sense too
It also depends which version of Windows you are running. If you have Win 11 Home, you can’t touch group policies without using scripts.
Have you used the module before? It looks very impressive!
It would be windows 11 pro
No, but I will use it if I need to setup a windows machine in the future. There are some parts of the guide that are questionable for privacy though, so I won’t follow it word by word, e.g. this. It aims to increase security to the highest level, even at the expense of privacy, but that’s easy to fix.
Oh I see what you are saying! I wish there was a list of that entire things of what not to turn on haha