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• Should you activate Win10’s optional Application Guard?

  Posted on August 30, 2021 at 02:43 CDT by Fred Langa • Comment in the Forums

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  By Fred Langa

  It’s disabled by default and comes with some serious gotchas … but it also can add an extra level of online security to Microsoft Office apps and to the Edge browser.

  Here’s how to tell whether Microsoft Defender Application Guard is available on your PC and how to enable it if you wish to give it a try.

  Plus: Sleuthing a user’s unusual Windows 7 to 10 activation issue!

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.33.0 (2021-08-30).

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• Rashid: Why Windows 10 is the most secure Windows ever

  Posted on September 19, 2018 at 07:19 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  There’s a new review from Fahmida Rashid — one of my favorite writers — that explains how Device Guard, Credential Guard, and Application Guard can actually be useful.

  Whether they’re sufficient reasons for organizations to move to Win10 — that remains debatable. But it’s important to know about the protections on offer.

  UPDATE: A brilliant, dead-on riposte by Vess Bontchev:

  Well, it's true. But it's also the most snooping Windows ever, and it is arguable whether having one is worth tolerating the other. It isn't worth it for me.

  — Vess (@VessOnSecurity) September 19, 2018

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