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[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Anti virus software. To protect your computer let's constantly run this software with root privileges!

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I remember mcAffee webadvisor came preinstalled with a crappy asus vivobook i got when i was younger, i could not delete it, i had to manually remove the files from the programfiles folder but it reinstalled itself every time it updated, the laptop bricked itself recently anyway so it doesn't matter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's when you wipe the os and install linux

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I run linux on my main pc, but some other people used the laptop.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Good endpoint protection doesn't run with any root privileges.