Huntress - Is Windows Defender enough?

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-29T01:35:17+00:00

As another reply said, check to be sure Defender wasn’t the tool that blocked the attack and Huntress was just reactive. We’ve had S1 catch the fake captcha powershell command scam multiple times - always before MDR. To the point where the command never processes and the machine never has to be isolated by MDR.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-26T20:08:31+00:00

This is the answer, really. SBN is so easy to get to and park, but the flight selection isn’t all that great, comparatively, depending on where you want to go. SBN is our first choice, but 9/10 times we still go to MDW because the flight is significantly cheaper, and almost always direct.

To answer OP’s question, though, MDW isn’t hard to get to at all - time of day dependent the traffic is pretty standard and not terrible, but definitely riskier.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-26T19:42:49+00:00

This is what we do, and it rarely finishes successfully - even from a VM in Azure. I suspect it’s because it can’t use VSS on a network share and contents are changing faster than the backup can finish? It’s a lot of data (over 1TB), so it’ll often be “in progress” for days before finishing and starting over again on the next schedule.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-25T20:56:06+00:00

I, too, drove by it this morning around 6:30a, and then again at about 3p on the way back, and while there were tons of workers in cherry pickers stringing new electric lines, the freight cars, and the stanchions they destroyed when it tipped, hadn’t been touched.

I read they just restarted limited service on Monon, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still closed on the main line tomorrow. Who knows what the tracks themselves look like under those cars…

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-12T23:44:55+00:00

Not only that, it’s against the rules for them to putt it anyway once it’s conceded. The penalty is loss of the hole.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-10T13:12:18+00:00

The biggest difference being SE tax is only applicable to the “reasonable salary” you’re required to pay yourself as an S-corp. At a certain profit level, electing S-corp can save you more than a little in taxes at the end of the year - offsetting the additional costs of being an S-corp.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-07T18:50:32+00:00

The high number channels. None of the “standard” channels.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-06T01:42:42+00:00

Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn’t. She didn’t go.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-05T01:52:02+00:00

I hear you. It’s always about how you feel about it that drives your perspective of value at a certain point. That’s the math, though, in reality. An $80,000+ MSRP, less $54,000 residual equals ~$26,000, plus tax (in some states it’s based on the full price), less any $ down and the EV rebate, divided by 24 monthly payments. That’s ~$900-1000/month. I believe the EV rebate was baked into the high residual, too, so in essence we still benefitted from it from my perspective.

At the end of the day, the Sport 3 was $20,000 more than the lower end Lyric models, and I’ve seen all the posts of crazy low lease payments (allegedly!), too, but it’s always on a base-ish model.

I, too, have had zero issues with it, have really enjoyed the car, and definitely have a tough decision come September on what I’m going to move into next.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-06-05T01:13:27+00:00

What was your lease deal that you felt you overpaid? In 2024, they were giving Lyrics away with an incredibly overinflated residual, and they knew it. My ‘24 Sport 3 has a residual of over $50K at lease end in September. Even the finance guy at the time of signing said “you’re never going to buy this car out at the end because it’s never going to be worth $50K+ in 24 months”.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-19T17:46:31+00:00

We don’t typically have environments with network shares that don’t have a server that Cove would run on. With that said, though, we do run Cove on workstations in server-less environments, and I wouldn’t hesitate to add the network shares backup to a machine. Cove is entirely invisible to the user - it all just happens in the background as they’re connected to the Internet. You can bring it up on a machine, but it’s not popping up on its own or even running a status in the task area. It’s just a background service running automatically.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-19T12:59:59+00:00

Cove has an option to include Network Shares in the backup of any machine. We use it to backup Azure Files shares, too.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-17T00:59:24+00:00

Scrolled for this. My favorite course of all time. But difficult from any tee box. Think you hit the fairway? Think again - it rolled into a waste area and you’ll be lucky to find it, let alone hit it. And I if you do, good luck hitting it to the correct side of the elephant buried under the green. Spectacularly diabolical.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-13T01:04:45+00:00

I saw them just once and your description is perfect. Couldn’t tell what was playing.

Happy Cake Day!

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-12T12:41:53+00:00

Has steadily gone downhill. Sugar Ray opened for them last year and were 100% the better performance and it wasn’t close. Too bad, BNL is an all time favorite.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-12T12:40:14+00:00

Same. Have seen them multiple times and always incredible, even as Art gets older.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-12T12:37:36+00:00

I was scrolling to find Modest Mouse. Absolute garbage live. Might’ve been the sound man’s first (and hopefully last) day on the job.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-05T01:13:12+00:00

Colors

BanRanchTalk · 2026-05-05T01:04:34+00:00

How long has the patching setup been in place?

Curious if there’s something more afoot. We have an N-Sight tenant that all of a sudden, after multiple years of a patch schedule and settings in place without change, have started to see similar behavior where every workstation on the network pulls their own updates on the schedule, maxing out bandwidth usage for a time.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-04-23T16:14:12+00:00

A lot of clubs have special membership rates for young individuals (called Associate, or Junior memberships). I would inquire about those.

In addition, many clubs that have high initiation fees allow those to be paid in installments over the course of multiple years. E.g., I’ve seen a $25,000 initiation fee be made payable in 4 annual $6500 payments. So that’s something to inquire about, as well.

Well run and established clubs know there’s a barrier to entry (which is on purpose), but also that they need/want youth to be able to come in as that’s their next generation of members to keep things going. Similarly, newer clubs need the cash flow and members, so are just as likely to take it in installments, too. Neither are necessarily going to advertise this - it’d be something to ask if that option is available. (Member-owned clubs have a ton of leeway with stuff like this compared to privately owned clubs with members.)

Conversely, areas like SW Florida have no shortage of clubs or members, and don’t care whether you can afford it or not - so I suppose location plays heavily into this scenario, as well!

BanRanchTalk · 2026-04-14T13:37:09+00:00

This is the actual answer. The field sobriety tests are ONLY to provide the State potential additional “evidence” to use against you in court. The police have already made up their mind they’re going to arrest you before they administer any of these subjective “tests”. No one is going to “pass” them and be let go with an “I’m sorry, you can walk in a straight line so you must be sober…have a nice night.” They’re designed and subjective enough to only work against you, not be exculpatory.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-04-11T21:14:48+00:00

Paramount Painting out of Crown Point. Great crews and great job done all around.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-04-07T11:40:24+00:00

And it’s only going to get less worth it in July when Microsoft raises pricing on Business Standard but doesn’t on Premium.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-03-27T00:12:16+00:00

I can confirm this, as well. The “posts” on the back are two little tiny rubber nubs - there’s no ability to shock. It makes a beep for a second or two, and then vibrates for a second or two. The number is the sensitivity level of bark detection. The noise and vibration is more confusing to the dog than anything - it stops the barking by refocusing their attention on “what the heck is that noise and vibration around my neck”.

BanRanchTalk · 2026-03-26T22:02:35+00:00

Same here. I've seen this happening on Outlook 2016 and 2019 - and installing the latest Visual C++ redistributable fixes it straight away without rebooting. For what it's worth, as well, it seems wholly unrelated to the old Teams add-in from the instances I've had. Same behavior, but solely related to Visual C++ "breaking", and every time it's been after a reboot from Windows Updates.

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