The Ultimate Windows Hardening Guide For 2023

This guide will help you get Windows secured more than most people and do so in a short time frame with minimal fuss. There will be an advanced guide coming at a later date for those looking to take security further.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:24 Windows Defender
01:24 ConfigureDefender
06:53 3rd Party AV
07:51 Firewall
12:18 Hidden Files/Folders and Show Extensions
15:56 Browsers
16:48 Chipset Drivers
18:33 Random Software
19:20 Adblocker
21:32 Outro

Links to software mentioned:

Background songs:

Laundry List - Dylan Sitts
Still Dreaming - Jobii
Tender Fall - Jobii

[adamotak]

I have Bitdefender and Malwarebytes premium and i never download or run any .exe software except official or paid ones that i need.
But i have downloaded a lot of torrent video courses and pdf books about coding/cybersecurity a lot of other learning topics, Do you think i can still get any malware/virus or keyloggers from those PDFS or Videos its only videos and pdfs btw even though i full scan all Partitions/Files with Malwarebytes/Bitdefender a couple of times?