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Do you utilize a dedicated AV like Bitdefender when sailing? Or do you still trust Windows Defender to take care of the higher risk while doing this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What the title says, and that's pretty much it. Do you or don't you?

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been solely trusting windows defender for years now. Honestly, the main way I prevent myself from getting compromised is by sticking to trusted sources whenever possible. If the torrent is provided by someone who’s only ever uploaded one thing, there’s no way in hell I’m trusting it. Beyond that, it’s a balancing act.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People (rightly) shit on Windows but Defender, despite constantly flagging my windows activator as malware, is the best antivirus that’s ever happened. If that fails (occasionally I have a family member who needs help) the amazing Malwarebytes takes care of it with one scan.

If that fails, whatever—reformat. Reformat never fails hahaha.

I haven’t got a virus once in my life, and I’m old. But like you, I stick to trusted sources. Even back on Kazaa, I made sure I’m not running an exe or bat and I was totally fine. The worst thing that happened to me was fucking with the mean clock in AOHELL TOOLZ too much and it put like a thousand text files title FUCK YOU in windows folder, circa windows XP. Luckily deleted them before my dad found out. Took FOREVER with a 400MHz Celeron.

At least it didn’t infect me with CIH, like it threatened (it told me the previous clock did that if you clicked it too much.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just FYI, these days even a format can fail. Some things manage to get into your actual bios, or infect your drive firmware.

Extremely rare, but still very much possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Possible, but nobody is wasting such a good exploit on average consumer PC's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You’d be surprised, these have already been found in the wild. They aren’t 0-days or anything, so they aren’t exactly secret or worth much. No more than any other cluster of code anyway.