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ELS122:

--- Quote from: Karel on August 28, 2023, 08:45:32 am ---Anti-malware creates more problems than it resolves.
They are not effective, very unreliable, consume resources, slowdown your pc and can mess things up.
The biggest virus is the person in front of the pc...

--- End quote ---

I run windows 7 SP1 on my PC, I have uBlock Origin as an adblock on waterfox G5.0 (firefox 89 fork iirc, I don't update because they disabled the old minimalistic theme which looks way better on 1080p monitors)
In 5 years I've been running the same OS install I haven't gotten any malware, I have 0 anti-malware programs installed, I just periodically install a free version of malwarebytes and do a full scan (and every time it shows 0 malware detected)

I even keep downloading software that is 20 years old for reasons. maybe I'm just lucky but I can tell apart sketchy software like a sore thumb, after a while you can instantly notice it because most malware use the same style website for the download page.
Karel:

--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 28, 2023, 09:21:25 am ---In 5 years I've been running the same OS install I haven't gotten any malware, I have 0 anti-malware programs installed, I just periodically install a free version of malwarebytes and do a full scan (and every time it shows 0 malware detected)

--- End quote ---

I believe most windows pc's are infected in one way or another, we just don't know it:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/security/uefi-rootkits/msg4327426/#msg4327426

PlainName:

--- Quote from: Karel on August 28, 2023, 08:45:32 am ---Anti-malware creates more problems than it resolves.
They are not effective, very unreliable, consume resources, slowdown your pc and can mess things up.
The biggest virus is the person in front of the pc...

--- End quote ---

It's like seatbelts and crash helmets - pain in the arse and a drag, and if you're a careful drive you might think you don't really need them. But we are human and can unintentionally screw up in a major way. These things are intended to be the last change to deal with an issue after the human has failed to avert it.

Malware on computers is a real thing. I am careful and circumspect about what I allow on my PC and where I visit, and yet I've sometimes narrowly escaped being scammed or running dodgy shit. In fact, I have run dodgy shit but it was on my phone where there is no backstop.
ELS122:

--- Quote from: Karel on August 28, 2023, 10:50:20 am ---
--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 28, 2023, 09:21:25 am ---In 5 years I've been running the same OS install I haven't gotten any malware, I have 0 anti-malware programs installed, I just periodically install a free version of malwarebytes and do a full scan (and every time it shows 0 malware detected)

--- End quote ---

I believe most windows pc's are infected in one way or another, we just don't know it:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/security/uefi-rootkits/msg4327426/#msg4327426

--- End quote ---

Yeah but you with your super secure super insanely good it's super easy to switch from windows - distro aren't safe from that either. How about the proprietary firmware that's installed on all intel cpu's since like 2009 and amd cpus since like 2014 iirc.
Or the rootkits in some brand of motherboard for a good while.
Or if you're on a laptop, those are filled with code running that you didn't ask for.
And if you have a huwawei laptop, why are you even talking about security??
ELS122:

--- Quote from: PlainName on August 28, 2023, 12:43:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Karel on August 28, 2023, 08:45:32 am ---Anti-malware creates more problems than it resolves.
They are not effective, very unreliable, consume resources, slowdown your pc and can mess things up.
The biggest virus is the person in front of the pc...

--- End quote ---

It's like seatbelts and crash helmets - pain in the arse and a drag, and if you're a careful drive you might think you don't really need them. But we are human and can unintentionally screw up in a major way. These things are intended to be the last change to deal with an issue after the human has failed to avert it.

Malware on computers is a real thing. I am careful and circumspect about what I allow on my PC and where I visit, and yet I've sometimes narrowly escaped being scammed or running dodgy shit. In fact, I have run dodgy shit but it was on my phone where there is no backstop.

--- End quote ---


Gamers dont wear seatbelts  ;D
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