What the title says, and that’s pretty much it. Do you or don’t you?
I pirate on Linux and don’t use that device for anything else. And I don’t pirate software or games where you are installing stuff.
Defender all the way. Not a single virus since Windows 7. The thing some people don’t realize is that in order for third party AV to work it has to modify the lowest layers of the OS which actually exposes it more to attacks. You have to trust the AV to do its job perfectly or you’re screwed.
My source? Just crap I heard online before. Probably bunk. But I stand by my personal anecdote.
I use linux. But yeah, windows defender is fine. Do rgular scans with it, keep it updated and you should be fine.
I trust that windows viruses won’t work on Linux. Plus I don’t pirate software, unless I can crack it myself using binaries provided by the software. I just see pirating software as supporting a company I hate instead of supporting an open source project I like
I just see pirating software as supporting a company I hate instead of supporting an open source project I like
Yes!
Adobe owes a huge part of their success to piracy. It made it impossible for smaller companies to get a foothold back in the 90s because everyone just pirated Photoshop. It never would have become so entrenched (or grown so exploitative in licensing) if people had instead used cheaper/free alternatives.
I upload any suspicious files to virustotal.com.
I use Windows defender, MBAM, and Rkill.
Haven’t had any issues yet, but I also choose my moorings well.
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.
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.)
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.
Possible, but nobody is wasting such a good exploit on average consumer PC’s.
Pretty sure Windows Defender is fine now and not markedly worse than something like Bitdefender.
I don’t even have antivirus on my computer. I almost exclusively use private trackers and download music/shows/movies.
…do you still trust Windows…
lol, not since 2004, and I’ve never looked back!
I sandbox stuff, using firejail or VM’s. coming from a cybersecurity perspective, AV’s are ok but they also aren’t stoping 0-days or malware that has been coded well by a good hacker.
Windows Defender is fine. The only anti-virus good enough at what it does to be worth buying instead of just using WD is Emisisoft, and that has its own set of issues.
Q: How do you know that you don’t have a virus without AV?
A: How do you know that you don’t have a virus WITH AV?
Sometimes AVs are literally viruses.
Not using Windows kinda solves this problem. It also solves many other problems lol
Including the problem of having too many games to choose from 😉
I have about 900 games not counting emulation.
Lol, you’re not wrong. There will always be idiots trying to gaslight here, though.
It’s not evil to eat meat - - erm, I mean… Use windows! I don’t even fucking like windows, but like… Yeah, I like to game and that’s the easiest platform to game on.
Exactly this. I’m getting plenty of downvotes and people claiming I’m talking crap but when I tried the Linux gaming life, I couldn’t even get Minecraft to work. Freaking Minecraft. And it only continued downhill from there. I make no claim that it’s not possible to game on Linux, only that it’s often such a chore that your entire planned gaming session can end up being a session of reading through forums filled with snide comments from pretentious Linux fanboys instead. I started as a console gamer and the fear of PC gaming was always that PC gaming can be a nightmarish tinker fest but Windows is much more click-and-play than Linux in my-and-most-people’s experience.
1996 wants its hot take back
And that’s 2023 on the phone, it would like its uncomfortable facts shown.
You need to change your username; you’re not debatable, you can’t even write a coherent sentence.
Linux has steam and supports 98% of AAA game titles.
Nobody cares
You care enough to write ignorant comments about it.
Lol you do
I’ll take “COMEBACKS THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY CLEVER” for $800, Alex!
No and no.
I use arch btwOh good, we all got together and we all wanted to ask you which Linux distro you preferred.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
It’s essentially an obligation or responsibility at this point. I don’t actually use arch though. I use a ublue based something image immutable whatever doodad Thinkpad with mods blah cocaine coreboot.
Anyways sail the seas on the penguin, don’t worry about viruses. Within reason though as some configurations can allow windows software to fuck you up.