Most antivirus I tested, even the paid ones, are so annoying with popups and complaining about cracks that I just take the risk and go without em

  • rozodru@lemmy.caEnglish
    1915·
    2 months ago

    best anti-virus I’ve ever used? my gut n’ noggin.

    been online for 30 years and have never once got a virus or trojan or anything and I pirate A LOT. My point being you’re not going to find a super duper great anti-virus program and they’re all gonna be annoying and provide false positives etc. Windows defender is going to ping you a lot cause you’re using cracks to alter admin settings to get your pirated shit to work, that’s the point.

    Download from trusted sources and uploaders, do your research. if it feels off or looks iffy then bounce out. People who get virus’ and trogans and shit honstly don’t know what they’re doing and in many cases it’s all hogwash anyways to sell you anti-virus programs.

    Like really, truly, think about it for a moment who in your entire life has recently gotten a computer virus? out of all the people I know in my life I can’t even think of a single person that has.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      212·
      2 months ago

      How do you know you never had malware if you have no means to check for malware? It’s not like it will announce itself.

        • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
          17·
          2 months ago

          I’ve also been online and pirating for 25+ years and your bragging horseshit is hilarious

          Fuck off mate, we’ve all had browser toolbars and had to reinstall windows multiple times in the past. Not so common now but before it was part of the deal

          Don’t be a dick, you’re not impressing anyone

        • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          There’s a lot of malware that just chills in the background and hides itself well (e.g., auto-shuts down whenever task manager is opened), and does little to impact you aside from using some of your system’s resources.

          Think being part of a botnet used for DDOS attacks, or a cryptominer that runs whenever you aren’t using much of your hardware’s capabilities.