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Ask HN: What crapware does your company install on your work computer?

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The security team in my org would like to install digitalguardian (https://digitalguardian.com/) or crowdstrike agent (https://www.crowdstrike.com/) on _all_ computers because reasons.

Initial experiences have not been very positive with many issues being reported including:

* rapid burnout of battery life

* random errors affecting fairly mundane io operations (e.g. git operations taking minutes, failure to compile apps etc.)

What has your experience been with these tools?

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kuharich
Dunno about the above.

I work for a BigCo. They decided to install Jamf on my development machine, my MacBook Pro.

Makes me want to Jamf this crapware where the sun don't shine!

garydarobot
Mc Afee Antivirus (not sure how to spell it). Everyday I start my apache server and my PC is frozen. I ask the sysadmin and he says antivirus scan is running in the bg. LOL.
Chyzwar
These tools often inject themself between syscalls (at least in Windows), they might not take many resources by themself but they slow down everything. I once worked in a bank where git status took 5s on 16 core machine with SSD.

If you can influence a decision I would look for something that allows you whitelist some directories and programs where impact for day to day job can be reduced.

For actual security, having updated systems and well-configured networks is probably more important[1].

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3503416/maersk-up-to-date-...

> Microsoft said most infections occurred on Windows 7 systems andclaimed that Windows 10's in-built defenses either blocked or mitigated each of the techniques.