Installed the SurfSharki app yesterday on Windows 10. It took like 15 minutes to set up on my old I-3 laptop; admittedly it’s a slow beast, but that was ridiculous. I set it to run the AV, just see what it would find. It found a virus in Notepad++ from 2014…it’s been awhile!
The AV scan kept running and running. Thought it was just bg activity, wasn’t concentrating on it. Then the service crashed and it kept going “modal” on me, occupying the foreground and getting in the way of everything, wanting to restart the service! I clicked but it kept failing. Today I booted to a black screen. Had to jump through hoops to get to SafeMode with Networking…I’m debating uninstalling the app entirely, too many red-flags. For now, have disabled both SurfShark and the SurfShark AV services and am going to see if I can reboot successfully!!
The Wireguard app is fast and light, pretty easy to set up. OpenVPN app was a bit surprisingly heavy to set up, but can be used with conf files without too many hoops, a few, but has some features like offloading some processing directly into kernel space from user space which has worked well so far even on this way underpowered laptop. Speaking of features, I was hoping to use some of the cool stuff mainly offered in the SurfShark app like selective tunneling but the app consumes excess memory and a lot, a lot of cpu cycles – not worth it!! I hope they can lighten the load, program some efficiency into the app!
I bet they’d increase market share too if they came out with some regional editions instead of cutting off whole markets!
Last, I think it would be grand to separate some features like the AV and VPN into standalone apps, and also offer them in a suite app.