What Virus protection, if any, do you use?

[VB 305]

nonei go none at all

 

[FukuMuku]

Avast.

 

[MediocreMilt]

TempleOS, as God Himself intended.

 

[Wingus Dongshire]

pfSense firewall for edge security with Snort IDS
MalwareBytes regular scans
An obsessive appraisal of hklm/microsoft/windows/currentver/run and scheduled tasks

Neither MBAM nor common sense help with zero-days, but ML/heuristic AVs are retardedly expensive for protecting my home network when all the ransomware'd crypto would be games and documents I have backed up. I'd like to be done with Windows altogether, but DirectX hasn't died off yet so I'm stuck with it.

 

[Stoneheart]

condoms.
And avira, Its free, it works against the worst stuff, what ever i have a clean Pc only for important stuff.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

Lmao, just be a phone poster.

 

[Arkangel]

Linux(Ubuntu) is my primary OS. Never gotten a virus or malware.

 

[RadicalCentrist]

Antivirus IS malware. Regular backups and not clicking on dolphin porn will do you more good than all the antivirus soft in the world.

 

[Tookie]

When I use Windows, I've moved towards using Malware Bytes and the built-in Defender along with vigorous ad blocking. I ditched third-party anti-virus with Windows 10 after they all started trying to fuck with root certificates.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

the only antivirus I got is a trial version of old ESET (version 4, I think) - I don't even need it, tbh
just don't click on shady links and you'll be fine

 

[repentance]

Kapersky.

 

[Smith Banquod]

Been using Immunet for a while now, it's good enough while also being completely fucking free.

Regardless, the best AV will always be common sense and not clicking on everything like a free range sped.

 

[MichaelScott]

ESET. I have tried everything and I always come back. I remember trying to download a file and ESET didn't allow me to, so I deactivated all protection and still. So.... I deleted the software, downloaded the file and got infected like a fucking retard. Since then I only use ESET.

PD: why in the fuck can't I use the word retard??

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I use malwarebytes for on demand scanning. It's been so so long since I had a virus get onto any of my computers, once I put adblockers on everything that was the end of the random occasional malware drive by ad. Hard to protect against that one since those ads were served almost everywhere....

I'll second what people are saying, common sense is your best protection, and an always active virus scanner is practically malware itself. For Norton or McAffee take away the practically part, those are worse than useless.

But I have no information of value. I mean, I'd be annoyed if I lost all the shit on my PC, but there's no real monetary value to it, beyond the time it took me to progress in various games or whatever. I imagine if you've got valuable information having an insurance policy makes sense.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Antivirus is a relic of the 90s. Anyone who still uses this bloatware is a lolcow.

 

[Chichan]

Shitty McAffee it came with the internet package,super anti-spyware good for trojans, kasperky, malware-bytes for pups I just uninstall so I don't have to pay after 13 days because I end up using a lot of sites that use shitty adfly to monetize their shit(grumble grumble). ?

 

[2.D.]

Linux(Ubuntu) is my primary OS. Never gotten a virus or malware.

Ubuntu is a virus. Use devuan or something.

 

[Tahoma]

MBAM and virustotal.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

If you're paying for virus protection for your personal PC, you're being suckered.

I've personally cleaned out so many family member's PCs, where the very first thing I have to do is remove Norton or McAffee, because not only did they utterly fail to stop the malware in the first place, they actively prevent me from fixing it.
They also give phishing malware an extremely easy route to appear legitimate. No, this isn't a virus asking for your credit card info, it's your virus scanner!

 

[Piss Clam]

If you run windows then I suggest along with your AV you run process explorer:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer (run as admin)

also plenty of other tools:

Windows Sysinternals - Windows Sysinternals

Library, learning resources, downloads, support, and community. Evaluate and find out how to install, deploy, and maintain Windows with Sysinternals utilities.

docs.microsoft.com

It has a hook into (when you enabled it):

VirusTotal

VirusTotal

www.virustotal.com

If you are on windows and are interested in how AV software works then I suggest doing a web search for:

hooking the system service table.

It is there where you hook things like Nt/ZwCreateFile(...) etc.