What Virus protection, if any, do you use?

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For everyone saying "common sense is enough," that's only true in a closed environment where everyone in it has the same common sense. You're on the internet and need to assume that every site you go to, every person you share files with, has no common sense. I operate on the assumption that everyone hosting a website is going to host malware at some point or another (don't you fuckin hack me Null.)

There's no insurance that any web host has the sense to vet their content, there are webkits exposing zero day exploits that aren't patched out of browsers constantly (Chrome had a huge one last month that only required you view a malicious item,) there's a huge banking Trojan campaign (trickbot) that uses PNGs to deliver payloads going on right now.

It s fucking retarded to pay a premium on AV to protect your home network, which is why you shouldnt keep anything in a single place that you can't afford to lose, but it's more retarded to think your common sense extends past what you control.
 
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Wingus Dongshire said:
For everyone saying "common sense is enough," that's only true in a closed environment where everyone in it has the same common sense. You're on the internet and need to assume that every site you go to, every person you share files with, has no common sense. I operate on the assumption that everyone hosting a website is going to host malware at some point or another (don't you fuckin hack me Null.)

There's no insurance that any web host has the sense to vet their content, there are webkits exposing zero day exploits that aren't patched out of browsers constantly (Chrome had a huge one last month that only required you view a malicious item,) there's a huge banking Trojan campaign (trickbot) that uses PNGs to deliver payloads going on right now.

It s fucking exceptional to pay a premium on AV to protect your home network, which is why you shouldnt keep anything in a single place that you can't afford to lose, but it's more exceptional to think your common sense extends past what you control.
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That may be true, yet going by that principal I've been able to avoid getting any malware. And if my computer ever seems to be acting funny, I'll run a scan. So far it's because windows itself is malware, but no viruses.
 
Adblockers are the best antivirus software these days. Use uMatrix if you have aspergers and want granular control, or use uBlock Origin if you don't.

And it's been mentioned a couple of times, but www.virustotal.com is a website where you can upload any file and it'll scan it for you with a ton of different antivirus programs. Use that if you need to download and run a suspicious EXE or if you're pirating Android software.
 
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I use Norton on my personal computer because I'm too cheap and lazy to use anything else, plus I'm almost never on it.
Otherwise, I use my work computer, which has whatever service the company provides.
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Claims to be too cheap for AV
uses paid AV software despite free AV being better in every way
 
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Don't even bother now days.. Especially knowing the amount of exploits popping up on a daily basis. But at minimal levels, a pretty decent firewall for protections and ad-blockers. so yeah guess I do use some shit.
 
Arch Linux and ublock origin with a few block list.

On windows 10, I used the built-in Windows Defender. Worked fine.
 
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I use ad blockers as well as common sense; I’ve given up on AV as, I started helping some, really cool and smart individuals, develop (for research purposes only) malware... and I learned a lot.

No piece of malware I’ve helped develop has ever been detected by more than one AV (and only by the AV that costs a million bucks a month and takes up over 20% CPU all the fucking time).

Of course, never used it for anything illegal, all for research purposes. Don’t @ me CIA Niggers

Moral of the story: you’ll get fucked anyway, use those eyes man, a friend of mine asked me to look at his computer a year ago. It was overheating all the time, I watched it idle. Didn’t use taskmanager (because some malware will see that you’ve opened it and will go “quiet”) to watch his usage sit around 40% when nothing was happening outside of windows being a dick... or so I thought. Dicked around a bit and found an exe that was using a buttload of GPU, oh what’s this? A bitcoin miner? Network activity too huh? Hmmm ???
 
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None, I want to poz my ethernet hole.

Haven't had a virus since Win98 and that was the only virus I've ever had, it probably came from that popular and shady no-cd crack website or astalavista. The WinXP worm hit me, but I just unplugged the internet and went back to a previous restore point(it actually worked) and cleaned things out.

But I also use virtual machines. VMware is great but for the last year or two the sound has been broken for me in Linux(Mint, Ubuntu), I don't need sound in my sandbox/protective hugbox but it annoys me to no end because it used to work. Trying to find a fix or asking questions makes Linux moderators incredibly angry because that question was already asked in 2003 and in that thread marked solved there's a link to VMware's support page that solves the problem in version 2.3 running on a WinXP host with a Debian guest or something, other comments might be "you don't need sound" and that's helpful.

So I use VirtualBox now, it's a bit crap.

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Moral of the story: you’ll get fucked anyway, use those eyes man, a friend of mine asked me to look at his computer a year ago. It was overheating all the time, I watched it idle. Didn’t use taskmanager (because some malware will see that you’ve opened it and will go “quiet”) to watch his usage sit around 40% when nothing was happening outside of windows being a dick... or so I thought. Dicked around a bit and found an exe that was using a buttload of GPU, oh what’s this? A bitcoin miner? Network activity too huh? Hmmm ???
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I've seen similar things in the past with whole offices full of computers running at 100% with disk access times in the tens of seconds. "It's happening again!" they say.
It wasn't bitcoin miners or malware, it was Adobe bungling yet another update for Acrobat of all things. I don't remember what it was doing exactly but I think with some software/hardware configurations it started scanning every icon and document it could find thousands of times a second, possibly to check if it could add a context menu item for "open this file in Acrobat" and, I think, if it didn't have permission to do that it tried again, and again, and againagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagainagain.

Some HP software should be classified as malware though.
 
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Built in win 10 firewall/aa, adblock (ublock origin) and vpn.
 
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