ini baked files reported as not assecible but actullay get deleted

[VulcanTourist]

Yes. I also use No Script for Firefox. Works well.

In the distant past I once used Proxomitron, which was a filtering HTTP proxy with its own syntax for creating rules. It was an actual proxy, which meant that it straddled your Internet pipe as a middleman and intercepted all HTTP traffic first. You could literally rewrite incoming Web pages BEFORE they even reached a browser. Since it was not browser-specific nor even specific to browsers and intercepted ALL incoming HTTP traffic, that meant that it could act as a filter for ALL applications that relied on HTTP: you could block unwanted ads and garbage even in applications that weren't browsers per se.

 

Sadly, the author Scott Lemmon died, and that was the end of it. It never progressed beyond HTTP, and the ubiquity of HTTPS now renders it useless. *sob*

 

NoScript and uBlock Origin are in significant ways inferior to a proxy, but they're all we have now. *sob*

[HadToRegister]

i use the paid for version of malwarebytes - have done for years. i cannot recall the last time i used an anti-virus program - must be 10 years or so now. malwarebytes is something i'd happily recommend in conjunction with windows defender.

 

 

Hmmm

I can renew Kaspersky for 29.99

 

For Malwarebytes it's 3.33/mo = $40