Is the integrated antivirus really enough these days or this a meme?

Is the integrated antivirus really enough these days or this a meme?

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It's scam because windows itself is malware. gnu.org/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html

Antivirus is a bit of a meme, but if you insist on letting something as insecure as Windows come into contact with the internet and/or dubious files, you'll probably want one anyway. If that's your use case, Windows Defender is indeed a solid choice.

it already outperforms others anyways there's literally zero reason to use anything else

>muh windows is bad meme
Sauce on that?

Small company IT here, it's good enough for our users.

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What features are you expecting out of an antivirus?
Most antiviruses perform 2 simple functions: blacklisting of "known bad" applications, and whitelisting of "known good" applications. Anything beyond that is generally checking for anomalous behavior on a semi-regular basis.
Realistically, there's no reason an expensive antivirus should/would be better than a cheap one.
Really, the biggest problem is with Windows' almost non-existent permissions scheme, and that you have to "allow all" or "deny all" to given applications regardless of the kinds of privileges they request. 99% of the problems with Windows security come from the fact that its users are so conditioned to allow superuser permissions for even the most minor of applications, that they eventually end up giving tons of permissions to some piece of malware somewhere down the line.
TL;DR - Users are the problem, not the antivirus (or lack thereof).

Relax, user. I didn't say Windows is bad, I said it's insecure. Which really shouldn't come as a surprise.

Oh, Defender is definitely enough. It's more than enough. Fucking Defender.

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When is the last time you've had a virus? I can't remember a single time except the early days of XP.

leaving it enabled on any machine i've ever seen makes the whole thing slow down to a fucking crawl. I install 3rd party av as a rule because it makes it switch off and performance multiplies by 10.

anyone saying having just defender is fine performance-wise has obviously never tried to run with it disabled or has an absolutely terrible pc

Don't install proprietary shit and you don't need antivirus shit. AKA common sense.

how's life working at bitdefender?

>antivirus

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Depends on what you do on your computer. Do you download illegally? Your ass better have Kaspersky or similar quality antivirus (only $40/yr). Do you only install trusted apps and visit trusted porn sites (pornhub). Defender might be OK. Try to stay away from pirate apps/games. That's #1 how you fuck yourself.

This is true. If privacy is your thing, you need to either learn to lock windows up or switch to mac/linux. No matter what you do, info is going to leak about you. Same with android/osx phones. The ONLY thing you can do is allow that data to leak anonymously and then switch every year or so to another device. that way the profile being built on you doesn't get too invasive. VPN (both phone and pc) always when doing something you wouldn't show your co-workers.

This goy

>suggesting mac for security
lmao no. not even every linux distro can save you. however any linux is better than anything else.

> Depends on what you do on your computer. Do you download illegally? Your ass better have Kaspersky or similar quality antivirus (only $40/yr). Do you only install trusted apps and visit trusted porn sites (pornhub). Defender might be OK. Try to stay away from pirate apps/games. That's #1 how you fuck yourself.
Kek look at this faggot

This post is just dumb. If you give shady executables administrator privileges you are throwing all security out of the window. That $40 you're paying for Kaspersky is pure placebo the moment you run pirated installer.exe

>Mcafee
>5 star protection
>5 star usability
>all these other nonames

Kaspersky is the only one worth getting, has the best protection against ransomware.

Otherwise, I only use Malwarebytes. It's p.

>Kaspersky is the only one worth getting, has the best protection against ransomware.

Maybe because it's the russians like them who write ransomware in the first place

>don't click executables you don't trust
>common sense 2022 GOLD edition

eh the only thing windows defender is good at is detecting windows activators, don't trust that shit

>Using windows defender

My Core 2 Duo L9400 must be a fucking power house, it runs Windows 10 just fine with Defender enabled on Windows 10. I still don't like Windows 10 though...

Any 3rd party automatically becomes an attack vector by design as they install themselves as root breaking security protocols like HTTPS. The best safeguard is common sense, using uBlock Origin and uMatrix to only allow trusted first party scripts from known safe sites you regularly use that can't be disabled without breaking its function and using a host file like someonewhocares.org/hosts/ to block alot of known malicious domains as wel as something like Spy Net for Asus routers with Merlin firmware to block IP ranges of countries, abused regions and domains. Also don't run an administrator account with full privileges and if you download alot of shady stuff or visit alot of shady sites then consider getting a burner laptop that can easily be formatted and reinstalled.

You sound like a nerd

The fucking state of Jow Forums

>It's scam because windows 10 itself is malware.
Fixed.