Making it impossible to use certain sites? What sites? You mean the ones running requiring Adobe Flash player? It's been long understood that Flash is an over-exploited technology and should be retired. Sadly, it sometimes takes a forcing function to push that kind of wrecking ball into motion. However, this is NOT a Windows 10 issue.
Let's be perfectly clear about another thing here. While I absolutely love and support Windows 10, I am far from taking a position that Microsoft can do no wrong. Internet Explorer is the prime example of a MAJOR piece of indispensable software - the web browser - that Microsoft has fucked up so badly I should think it would be an embarrassment to them. Well, I guess it sort of was since they started over with Edge. But so far, it's a POS, too. Google Chrome, on the other hand embraces the newest and safest technologies only. You can't run Flash on Chrome, but YouTube works just fine in Chrome using the HTML5 media engine, which is a part of the HTML5 specification, btw. Everyone needs to go this direction. So far, Firefox lets you make an exception and run Flash anyway. Not ideal, but at least they have started to initially block it before letting you shoot yourself in the foot with it.
Why is IE such a POS? Because Microsoft never followed the standards, apparently believing they were above all that. In the meantime, browsers like Firefox and Chrome fully adhered to the standards. Web developers, faced with following the standards (as they should) or pandering to Microsoft's abomination (which still has a seriously large market share since it comes with Windows and people who don't know better blindly believe it must be a great browser) came up with hacks to force IE into some sort of normal behavior using special CSS directives like:
<!--[if lte IE 7]>
which means, "if the version of this browser is less than or equal to (lte) IE version 7, then override the normal style sheet and use the following one instead." And by the way, I copied that snippet of code from THIS website.
Anyway, point is. This thread is about Antivirus programs, not dated and dangerous browser technologies. Just trying to shed some light on that distinction.
And for the record, being a long-standing lover of Firefox, I have recently made the decision to make the move to Chrome as my daily driver due to its superior speed and the way it sandboxes each browser tab thereby stabilizing the browsing environment. And that's not to mention its transparency in letting you know what extensions are gaining access to when you install them so you are at least going in eyes-wide-open. Chrome is not without its faults, but I'm coming to grips with what I must do to enjoy a faster, safer, and more stable internet experience.
