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Wynona said:

Oh! I'm gonna go try that! How long has it been possible? I haven't tried High Contrast in a long time, since it's as bright as bright white.

I've been using it for a very long time now, because you can change almost everything to whatever color you desire, and better yet, almost any increment of those colors. So your gray backgrounds, can be any shade of gray that you choose from light grey to a very dark charcoal gray. It gives you a great range of control over the look of your entire system. And you can make several profiles of different colors, which are easy to switch to. It changes explorer, control panel, start menu, etc...

Wynona said:

Went there, but it wouldn't let me change the way dark black background.

Maybe you have to get rid of whatever theme you are using (dark theme) and then use it. I have about six different profiles, and my backgrounds on everything except Chrome browser are a nice shade of black. Not too dark, and not too light. Chrome has a problem with it, and looks horrible, so I turned it off for Chrome. But other browsers work perfectly. Look at the pic below, and you can see my browser background is a nice gray color, not the startling white of Chrome.

WEKJR said:

I read the posts and will wait for MB to make the corrections. Thanks for the heads-up.

Hi folks
@WEKJR

You don't need things like MBAM any more on HOME computers --I've made a few posts on explaining why C21 AV systems are totally different from C20 stuff and especially to those who have been using these things for "a long time" or "ages". (Old versions of Windows e.g W7 needed all this sort of stuff)

Now W10 is decently defended with WD and in any case the idea of hacking home computers doesn't attract geeks or get any "Street Cred" any more - but making money via Internet Scams and Frauds is now big business and AV software won't protect you against that type of stuff.

For Home networks these 3rd party AV systems are essentially "SNAKE OIL" -- your problem on computers now is not old fashioned hackers trying to disrupt a few miserable consumer home computers - that hacking era is well passed - so last century C20.

The new point of the game is MAKING money via scamming. Even Pirate Bay site doesn't want malware torrents any more as bad reputation ruins advertising revenue -- and with cheap legal streaming alternatives these torrent sites need to maintain their user level to attract revenue.

So IMO WD is just fine -- anything else is really in 2019 just total SNAKE OIL. (Again just for Home computers -- commercial and cloud servers face different protection issues).

On Home Computers forget any 3rd party AV -- WD works just fine. Anything else is a waste of time and resource - and WD is updated almost daily. (I'm not again talking about commercial LAN's / Cloud servers etc - just HOME computers).

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks
@WEKJRYou don't need things like MBAM any more on HOME computers --I've made a few posts on explaining why C21 AV systems are totally different from C20 stuff and especially to those who have benn using these things for "a long time" or "ages". (Old versions of Windows e.g W7 needed all this sort of stuff -- now W10 is decently defended with WD and in any case the idea of hacking home computers doesn't attract geeks or get any "Street Cred" any more - but making money via Internet Scams and Frauds is now big business and AV software won't protect you against that type of stuff.For Home networks these 3rd party AV systems are essentially "SNAKE OILl" -- your problem on computers now is not old fashioned hackers trying to disrupt a few miserable consumer home computers - that hacking era is well passed - so last century C20.The new of the gane is MAKING money via scamming. Even Pirate Bay site doesn't want malware torrents any more as bad reputation ruins advertising revenue -- and with cheap legal streaming alternatives these torrent sites need to maintain their user level to attract revenue.So IMO WD is just fine -- anything else is really in 2019 just total SNAKE OIL. (Again just for Home computers -- commercial and cloud servers face different protection issues).Cheersjimbo

I agree totally. I haven't used a 3rd party antivirus for a long time now, and haven't used MBAM or SuperAntiSpyware in a very, very long time. They serve no purpose now days, as you've explained. But many people get caught up in doing something as a habit, and just keep doing it, no matter what the situation calls for. So I understand why so many people continue using them, even though they aren't very useful.

CountMike said:

There's still tons of SW out there with PuPs.

@CountMike

that maybe but who these days ever gets these things on their machines.

There's loads of (especially in your region I suspect or Bosnia) of probably unexploded mines - yet most people in those regions don't fortunately get blown up etc. even though there must still be a huge amount of ordinance undealt with.

Cheers
jimbo